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■ Transit Crime Investigation Unitdetectives are investigating a sexual assault on a bus from Moonee Ponds to Brunswick. Investigators have been told a 48-year-old woman boarded the bus on Patterson St, Moonee Ponds. Whilst seated on the bus a man approached the woman and sexually assaulted her. The woman tried to move away from the man and he followed her to the front of the bus. She disembarked the bus at the intersection of Sydney Rd and Brunswick Rd, Brunswick, and the man continued to follow and harass her until she was able to seek help from a member of the public. He then fled on foot north along Sydney Rd.
● Scientist Dr Henry Jekyll (Mark Doran) self-experiments to discover the duality of man. Photo: Ben Fon ■ For the ultimate live theatre experience don’t miss CLOC Musical Theatre’s stunning production of Jekyll and Hyde the Musical, playing until October 27 at the National Theatre. Set in London in 1888, this gothic musical tale tells of research scientist Dr Henry Jekyll ■ Young acrobats, comedians, singers, acself-experimenting to source the duality of man’s tors, entertainers. Circus Oz’s Sidesault at good and bad forces, when unable to use a huthe Melba has it all. man subject from the insane hospital. This festival has six different shows, three He tells friend John he aims to eliminate evil per night. All different, all exciting, collaborafrom the world. After celebrating his engagetive, entertaining. I saw three. ment to Emma Carew, and extending kindness Might Sight – Their Sight had the audito prostitute Lucy during a visit to The Red Rat ence ooohing as the acrobats ran around the pub, Henry returns home to start risking selfspace in what appeared to be a game of chase experimentation. before putting on blindfolds and attempting The result of this dangerous game is the mur■ A parolee who broke the jaw of a 17acrobatic feats in them. derous Edward Hyde, who knows Dr Jekyll year-old during a football match has had As the actors crept closer to the edge it “as well as I know myself”. his court case adjourned. Will Pickett, 28, was obvious those blindfolds were real. Director Shaun Kingma has transformed the of Heywood, was charged with recklessly This was a display in trust as the performtheatrical materialities of sets, costumes and causing serious injury and breaching paers relied on one another to remain safe. technological effects into story-telling tools as role following an off-the-ball incident in Whilst well rehearsed and collaborative this equally powerful as the show’s characters, lyrJune. Victim, Branxholme-Wallacedale’s production may have been enhanced with creics, music and choreography. Sam Lambevski, suffered a broken jaw. ative costumes and lighting to match the somThe versatile, rotating, intimidating dark Mr Pickett’s case was mentioned in Portbre mood created by the music and expresmulti-level set (designers: Brenton Staples and land Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday and sions of the performers. Shaun Kingma) with gothic arches and iron adjourned for further hearing on NovemA sample for the audience to ‘see’ for themlacework, menacingly looms, shielding mysterber 27, reports the Warrnambool Standard. selves how dark it was under those blindfolds ies behind its façade. Victoria Horne’s era aumay have also enhanced the show making it a thentic costumes impress with their creatively greater experience for all. adventurous styles. Empowering the story-tellThree New Zealanders presented them■ Today (Wed.). Showers. 13°-22° ing, Brad Alcock’s lighting design treats patrons selves as Laser Kiwi, an idea born from an ■ Thurs. Showers. 12°-21° to state-of-the-art wizardry and effects, includidea. ■ Fri. Mostly sunny. 12°-27° ing onstage mobile spot-lights. Marcello Lo That is what this show is about, new ideas, ■ Sat. Scattreed showers. 8°-18° Ricco’s masterly sound design emphasises the try them, see how it goes. They tried a lot. ■ Sun. Sunny. 9°-22° show’s palpable scariness. To Page 11 It is more stand up comedy , visual gags ● Richard Sullivan and Byron Hutton and one liners than circus, yet some of the in JuggLife in Circus Oz’s circus stunts and displays were clever. Sidesault at the Melba. Imogen was particularly skilled in both her fronting, yet very well executed to my unacrobatic feats and in engaging the audience, trained eye. A fabulous high paced, socially creating a theatrical character and maintain- aware show with all the elements of theatre. ing this throughout . Fantastic. With small eye movements she conveyed Performance Details: October 18 – 21 a great deal. The more vocal performers were 6.30pm. Jugg Life – Jugg Life Productions; far less subtle in their approach, yet funny, 8pm Hell is other people – Love is the Drug; witty and daring. 9.30pm Feed the Horse – Radish by Night. With a lot of laughing opportunities and Venue:The Melba Spiegeltent, 35 Johnston audience participation this show was engag- St, Collingwood ing and whilst overshadowing the skills at Tickets: $27 single show, $60 three show times with too many gags mostly on target, pass and $100 season pass (plus booking fees) fun. Bookings: themelbaspiegeltent.com.au Don’t mess with the Boss Squad. Five, en- Review by Elizabeth Semmel ergetic, talented performers, jumping, tumbling, climbing, swallowing, singing, tossing 5. "Daylight saving causes cancer.” in an hour of high paced, awe inspiring entertainment- with a message. T 4. "Battered flathead sues bayside council for cruelty.” hese women have a point to make and do so in actions not words. 3. "Drive-in confessional for St Pat's. "Toot 'N Tell". They warn the audience ‘do not try this at home’, as they performed clever and danger2. "Two musical instruments elope. Same Sax marriage.” ous stunts and acrobatics. There were moments where I was forced 1. "98-year old Grandmother bashes 27 Bikies.” to look away as some of the stunts were con-
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● David Dodd (Edgar Percival) with Percival Proctor plane in hangar at Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin Airport, joined by fellow actors Julie Herbert and Steve Morris (Peter Isaacson) in Legends of the Skies Series Six. ■ Legends of the Skies Series Six follows on Company in Britain; Nancy Bird Walton , an from five series all connected by a common amazing adventurous Australian aviator, founder of the Australian Womens’ Pilots Assotheme. They all feature stories of famous and not so ciation; Sir Thomas White, an early airman well known Australian aviators, presented at who served in WWI and WWII and was the Australian National Aviation Museum, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He became an Australian politician, served Moorabbin Airport. The preceding cycle has included stories as a Minister for Trade and Customs, and beabout Harry Hawker, Sir Charles Kingsford- came Australia’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; and Chubbie Miller. Smith, Bert Hinkler and others. The latter was a fascinating and fun loving The Australian National Museum is a perfect choice and is an excellent venue. We are lady who led such an interesting life that a movie surrounded by museum exhibits, memorabilia should be made about her. The short pieces are written by Neil Follett, and huge aeroplanes that seem to hover above and around us, all adding to the excitement of Steve Morris, Robin Austen, Alison Knight and Jim Williams and have shed a light on many the stories. A cast of actors all give steady performances hidden gems that need to be exposed and shared. Plays are interspersed with songs sung by and tell stories from each “legend’s” personal perspective often to school age children which cast and audience. Directed by the energetic worked well. Children from Parktone Primary and inspiring Maggie Morrison, these plays tell School and Kilbreda College are included, giv- stories about forgotten early pioneers of our aviation industry, stories that all Australians should ing a meaningful touch. The stories in this series include Edgar know as part of our history, of which we should Percival, a respected Australian aircraft de- be proud. - Review by Jill Page signer who established The Percival Aircraft
Dusty, original Pop Diva ■ Babirra Music Theatre presents Dusty – the Original Pop Diva until October 20 at the Whitehorse Centre, Nunawading. Directed by Christian Cavallo, with musical direction by Stacey-Louise Camilleri, and choreography by Jessica Mohl, the show tells of the story of Dusty Springfield. Dusty’s real name was Mary O’Brien and she became regarded as the most influential British female artist of the 1960’s. Known as the White Lady of Soul, she was responsible for bringing the Motown sound to the UK. But despite the string of hits, the sell-out concerts, the regular TV appearances and the legion of fans, Dusty/Mary was forever fighting her self-doubt. This is her story and the story of her music. From humble beginnings in North London, Dusty, blessed with an amazing voice and talent, dares to dream. Despite no encouragement from her parents (who saw her older brother Dion, later to be known as Tom Springfield, as the talented one), Dusty was not to be deterred, and transformed herself into the blonde pop icon who would dominate 1960s music. Songs include I Only Want To Be With You, Little By Little, Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Stay Awhile, Dancing In The Street, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Look of Love, Son Of A Preacher Man, You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me, and many more. Performance Dates: October 18, 19, 20 at 8pm; October 20 at 2pm
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■ MGA Foundation has announced that Melbourne-based artist Hoda Afshar is the winner of the $30,000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize for her photograph portrait of Behrouz Boochani, Manus Island. The judges, Dr Michael Brand, Director of the Art Gallery of NSW; Melbourne-based artist Dr David Rosetzky; and Anouska Phizacklea, MGA Director, were unanimous in their decision to award Afshar the coveted prize, agreeing that the portrait, with its immense visual, political and emotional presence, is worthy of attention and reward. An exhibition of all finalists is now on display at MGA until November 18. Gallery visitors are encouraged to vote for their own favourite in the Sotheby's 'Australian People's Choice Award. Afshar's portrait of Behrouz Boochani is compelling and powerful. It is a haunting portrait that speaks to the history of photography. Boochani's gaze . the fire that burns behind him, the way his body is positioned - it has an intensity and power that is undeniable. Embedded within Afshar's practice is a deep understanding of photography, its history and how powerful photography can be. Monash Gallery of Art 860 Ferntree Gully Rd., Wheelers Hill - Peter Kemp
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● Erin Towns (Iphigenie) and Finn Gilheany (Orestes). ■ BK Opera ends its 2018 season with a double Pylade. bill of Gluck operas: Orphée et Euridice and These love stories offer representation for Iphigénie en Tauride, being presented from Oc- those who don’t often see themselves reflected tober 31 to November 4 at Studio One, Northcote in opera. Town Hall. In the two years since BK Opera was formed, Both operas are drawn from Ancient Greek they’ve become known for their distinctive brand legends, centring on loss and trauma: loss of of dark and intimate interpretations of classic loved ones, loss of homeland and identity. operas. Orphée must brave the furies to save her wife, The brainchild of Kate Millett and James Euridice. Iphigenie must face the aftermath of Penn, BK Opera won the OperaChaser Innoher family’s troubled and violent history. vation Award for their 2017 season. Through these two operas, director, Kate Working with emerging singers, they strip Millett, delves into the different effects trauma opera back to the ‘bare bones’, focusing on the can have on the human psyche. emotional core of this timeless artform. For Orphee et Euridice, Alison Lemoh reThey’ve also become known for their maraturns to BK Opera as Orphée, alongside return- thon opera performances for White Night around ing soprano, Rada Tochalna as Amour and, Victoria. Louise Keast in her BK Opera debut, as Creatives; Conductor James Penn , Director Euridice. Kate Millett, Lighting Designer Robin For Iphigénie en Tauride, Iphigénie will be Czuchnowski , Repetiteur Pamela Christie. sung by Erin Towns, with Orestes and Pylades Season: October 31 – November 4 being played by Finn Gilheany and Jonathan Times: Evenings at 8pm October 31, NoRumsam, in his operatic debut. vember 2, Day matinee at 2pm, November 4 Traditionally, Orphée is played by a woman Running time: Approximately 140 minutes in a pants role, however BK Opera has chosen length including one interval to simplify this role, and portray a same sex rePerformed in French with English surtitles lationship between Orphee and Eurydice. Bookings: Tickets from $35 (fees may apThey have done the same with Iphigenie, ply) Concession prices available for all perforhighlighting the relationship of Oreste and mances. www.bkopera.com.au
Melb. Symphony Ears Wide Open: Debussy MSO Cybec Assistant Conductor, Tanyl Lu will guide you through this renowned work. Part concert, part guided-musical journey, this is the music education at its finest. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun is a symphonic poem for orchestra, completed in 1894 by one of the most influential French composers of all time; Debussy. . This famous composition is often considered a turning point in the history of music, join the
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Jekyll and Hyde A major player in this ultimate theatre experience is Mark Doran’s brilliant portrayal of gentle, caring Henry Je kyll and the evil Edward Hyde. Doran’s beautiful, rich singing voice, skilled acting and captivating stage presence is of the highest professional standard. Indeed, Kingma’s cast are all obviously ‘top of the tree’ musical theatre artists. Other standouts for me were Rachel Rai’s endearing performance as Lucy, Catherine Hancock (Emma), Daniel Mottau (John), Ben JasonEaston (Boy), Ric Birkett (Sir Danvers Carew) and Ian Andrew (Simon). Tyson Legg’s great orchestra and Tamara Finch’s choreography - wonderfully stylised and executed perfectly – complete this unique theatre experience. Congratulations to all. The story may not appeal to everyone, but Jekyll and Hyde the Musical is a truly memorable theatre experience. Performance Details: Until October 27 Venue: National Theatre, St Kilda Bookings: www.cloc.org.au or 1300 362 547 - Review by Cheryl Threadgold
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■ Fancy a trip to the Yarra Valley to be serenaded by world-class opera talent among the spectacular surrounds of an historic homestead? The Yarra Valley Opera Festival offers opera lovers and first-timers the opportunity to taste opera-theatre as never seen before. Fully-staged opera, from the contemporary Handmaid's Tale to the classics. Cosi fan tutte, directed by Australian stage and screen legend Geraldine Turner , and conducted by rising Melbourne Symphony Orchestra star . The Elixir of Love, starring South Australian opera stalwart Douglas McNicol and led by Brian Castles-Onion . Inspired by London's famed Glynbourne Festival, the Salzburg Festival in Austria, Germany's Bayreuth Festival, Glimmerglass in the US and more than 75 similar events celebrating opera globally, the Yarra Valley Festival brings the Australian arts scene an international-flavoured festival with an uniquely local twist. The Yarra Valley Festival ends on Sunday (Oct. 21). - Peter Kemp
Tolarno Galleries Dawn Chorus - Nicholas Folland Recently announced as having been selected to exhibit in the National New Australian Art 2019 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nicholas Folland presents Dawn Chorus, his second solo exhibition at Tolarno Galleries. Dawn Chorus is an allusive and fragile landscape comprising Wake, wail and jive, a delicate installation composed of quivering, hand-woven wire forms a group of woven sculptures entwined with found Stuart Crystal and Webb Corbett crystal vases and a series of almost imperceptible white-on-white embossed drawings. The irony being that to produce 'barely there' drawings required the most intense physical effort as every mark of a white ballpoint was heavily pressed into the reverse side of each sheet of paper top form an exquisite, minimalist embossed front surface. Exhibition closes November 3. Tolarno Galleries Level 4, 104 Exhibition St., Melbourne - Peter Kemp
Geelong Gallery A Portrait of anArtist. 2018 Archibald Prize finalists Fiona McMonagle and Jonathon Dalton join sitter, Abdul Abdullah, moderated by Geelong Gallery Senior Curator Lisa Sullivan. Talk": October 27 from 11am - 12pm, Free Event. Seraphim Trio Schumann Quintet with Andrew Haveron & Jacqui Cronin. As part of the Southbank Series 2018, Seraphim Trio will perform one of the most-loved pieces of chamber music of all time. Schumann's convivial masterpiece, the Piano Quintet in E-flat major. Also, on the program is Korngold's rarely performed Suite for two violins, cello and piano. Seraphim Trio will be joined by Sydney Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Andrew Haveron and violinist Jacqueline Cronin. Thursday November 1. At 8.30pm Venue: Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St. Southbank. Geelong Gallery 55 Little Malop St, Geelong - Peter Kemp
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■ MPavillion 2018, designed by Barcelonabased architect and educator, opened Monday October 8 in the Queen Victoria Gardens. Internationally known for her communityfocussed philosophy of design, Carme Pinos's Mpavillion marks the first public work in Australia by a female Spanish architect. MPavillion, Queen Victoria Gardens St. Kilda Rd, Melbourne - Peter Kemp
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Premiership flag goes to the West ■ Hi everyone, from my suite at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites comes this week's news.
Out and About
Record for North Melbourne
■ What an exciting Grand Final of AFL football. Many expats and I watched the game live here in Los Angeles. It was thrilling to the end. I was at former program director of 3AW in the eighties, Terry Smith's house in the Valley, which was decked out in black-and-white with horns and whistles to be blown when Collingwood scored a goal or behind. It was a great atmosphere until the last two minutes of the game when the horns and whistles stopped. West Coast is a strong team all over the ground and they have won the flag in 1992, 1994, 2006 and now 2018. North Melbourne Football Club has a lot to do with their success. West Coast coach Adam Simpson played 306 games for North Melbourne and was at the club for 14 years. Backline coach is Daniel Pratt who played 116 games for North Melbourne. What a record for North Melbourne with the sixth premiership in 10 years won by former North Melbourne players. Alastair Clarkson, four premierships for Hawthorn; John Longmire, one premiership for Sydney Swans; and now Adam Simpson ,one premiership for West Coast Eagles.
Celine says farewell ■ Celine Dion is saying au revoir to her longtime tenure at Caesars Palace. After eight years at The Colosseum, the 50-year-old songstress will end her residency in 2019. Dion first took the Las Vegas stage in 2011 and is currently set to perform through to January 20.
VW pulling out ● "All the Presidents Men": Lloyd Holyoak, Allen Aylett, Alan Johnson and Albert Mantello.
Pink’s: best in California ■ Many Angelenos consider the chili cheese dog at Pink's Hot Dogs on La Brea Avenue the best around, and now it's official. People magazine named the chili cheese dog the best in California, which has the hot dog stand's owner tickled pink. The honour was the latest in a long list of accolades bestowed upon Pink's, world famous for its hot dogs, many of which are named after the celebrities who frequent the stand. They include the Emeril Legasse Bam Dog, a nine-inch stretch dog with mustard, onions, cheese, jalapeños, bacon and coleslaw and the Martha Stewart Dog, a 9-inch stretch dog with relish, onions, bacon, chopped tomatoes, sauerkraut and sour cream. Autographed photographs of the celebrities who frequent the stand adorn the walls in the dining room. Famous guests often wait in line with eager diners from around the world who flock to the stand for their favorites. Pink's Hot Dogs has scored another honour, the intersection of Melrose and La Brea Avenue will be designated Pink's Square. The Los Angeles City Council approved the designation in late March and the logistics are being worked out. Plans call for the crosswalks to be painted pink. Richard Pink said the People magazine honour expands the stand's legacy and he expects it will inspire more people to eat there when visiting Los Angeles. Hot dog fans outside of Los Angeles can also enjoy Pink's Hot Dogs, as the company has franchises in Las Vegas, Miami, New York and Ohio, as well as the Philippines. Pink opened Madison, Wisconsin last week, where a Pink's Hot Dogs was opened at a water park. "I am so proud to be among such an illustrious group of the best hot dogs throughout the United States," Richard Pink added. "We were very honoured."
Rights for Nicole, Studios ■ Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to Meg Wolitzer's novel, The Female Persuasion, with Nicole Kidman producing. Kidman will produce the film adaptation through her Blossom Films production banner, which recently signed a first-look deal with Amazon. Lynda Obst and Per Saari will also produce, with This Is Us showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger attached as screenwriters and executive producers. The Female Persuasion will be a topical film, as it follows a college student named Greer Kadetsky who is groped by a serial abuser at a party and speaks out, only for her university to not take action. It will be the second film by Wolitzer to be adapted into a feature film, following the Glenn Close/Jonathan Pryce drama The Wife, which was released by Sony Pictures Classics last month. The deal also comes amidst a period of major change for Amazon Studios, as Julie Rapoport was also promoted Wednesday by studio head Jennifer Salke to co-head of the film division, with particular aim on developing films with mass appeal as opposed to the studio's previous focus on arthouse films like Manchester By The Sea and The Big Sick.
■ In a significant symbolic blow to the Iranian regime, the Volkswagen Group, the world's biggest selling car manufacturer last year has reportedly agreed to end almost all of its operations in Iran, in line with the restoration of US sanctions on Tehran. The news was disclosed by US Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, who since taking up his Berlin posting in May he presented his credentials on the same day President Trump announced the US was exiting the Iran nuclear deal has been encouraging the host government to isolate Iran and urging German companies to stop doing business there. "Volkswagen has told us they will comply with US sanctions on Iran," Bloomberg quoted Grenell as saying. "We are pleased with this decision because Iran diverts its economic resources away from its people to spread violence and instability across the globe."
Parks drying out
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From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd
■ America's national parks are warming up and drying out faster than any other US landscapes, a new study has found. The report, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is the first to examine rainfall and temperatures in all 417 US. national parks. It found that, without a substantial reduction of greenhousegas emissions, national parks will become hotter and more drought-ridden in the decades to come. "US National parks protect some of the most irreplaceable ecosystems in the world," the study states, adding that reductions in industrial emissions could "substantially reduce the magnitude" of expected effects. The study found that, between 1885 and 2010, national parks warmed by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit twice the US. rate while annual rainfall declined by 12 percent, four times the rate of the US overall.
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Founder doing nicely ■ Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has a new lady friend. We hear the tech guru, whose net worth is estimated to be $5.9 billion, is dating Sports Illustrated stunner Raven Lyn Corneil. One could ask the question: Is he happy?
Afraid to tell jokes ■ Howie Mandel is pissed about the state of stand-up comedy and he's blaming political correctness for its demise. We got the comedian and America's Got Talent judge leaving Craig's in West Hollywood, and he launched into a tirade about why comedy sucks now for comedians. Howie harkened back to legends like Richard Pryor who were revered for pushing the envelope but said anyone who tries that today runs the risk of destroying their whole career. It's gotten so bad; Howie says he's actually afraid to crack jokes in public.
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■ The University of Maryland at College Park announced a new diversity support group to create a "safe space" for white students to discuss their feelings about "interactions with racial and ethnic minorities." The support group, called White Awake, will help white students who may "sometimes feel uncomfortable and confused before, during, or after interactions with racial and ethnic minorities. This group offers a safe space for White students to explore their experiences, questions, reactions, and feelings," the description explains. "Members will support and share feedback with each other as they learn more about themselves and how they can fit into a diverse world."
Come and visit us
■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you. We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood. I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper. Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'. Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood
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Around Country Victoria Photos: Ash Long
● Bruce Duncan, Joan Donoghue and Peter Hudson at the Cheviot Tunnel for the John Wallis Foundation walk from Yarck to Yea
● Graeme Layton, Ann Enright, Peter Wilson and Roy Burns at the Cheviot Tunnel, bound for Yea, at Saturday’s Wallis Foundation walk.
● Ann Hunter and Jo Cavill at the Murrindindi Women’s Health Expo
● Cr Sandice McAulay and Sara Murray at the Yea Shire Hall
● Melissa McHugh and Moira McHugh at the Foggy Mountain Festival
● Elizabeth Kiss, Jason Ryland, Laura kingwill and Paul Lostia, at a fundraising stall for the Kinglake Ranges Children’s Centre
● Brad Quilliam and Jessica Ryan at the Bluegrass Music Festival
● Montgomery Church perform at the Foggy Mountain Festival marquee
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Wayne M otton - 60th Birthday Photos: Ash Long
● Wayne Motton and Shane Jacobson
● Nicola Boemo and Mick Holmes
● Alex Brace, Melanie Kinsey and Carol Speed
● Christina Nicodimos, Robert Motton and Emily Motton
● Chris Boemo and Bruce Anderson
● Debbie Uren and Trevor Kinsey
● Peter Wallbridge and Simon Lurati
● Helen Turley, Mark O’Regan and Lesley O’Regan
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■ Alan Rowe was born in Richmond in 1918 and spent his life in showbusiness as an actor, comedian, comedy impressionist, entertainer, and ventriloquist. In 1939 he enlisted in the army and worked in the area of pay and supplies during the war years. In 1944 he was appearing on 3UZ in a comedy show Chins Up with Roy Lyons. This led to regular spots on radio variety productions such as The Shell Show and The Real McCoys. Alan did a sketch with the famous English singer and film star George Formby. In 1948 he starred in his own show Streamline, broadcast on 3DB. Alan wrote and performed the comedy sketches for the show. The cast included Penny Lucas, Roy Lyons, Laurie Wilson, George Bellmaine and The Tune Twisters. In 1949 Alan worked on the original television test demonstrations from the Melbourne Town Hall. In 1951 he went to England to try his luck and performed in many famous English theatres including The Windmill Theatre in Soho. In 1954 he toured with the famous comedy team of Laurel and Hardy in a show titled Birds of a Feather. Around this time Alan created the character of ‘Kimbo the Koala’ and developed his ventriloquist act. He married Jean Vaughan in England and
Whatever Happened To ... Alan Rowe
By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM
the couple sailed for Australia in 1957. Television was just beginning and Alan became a regular performer on the children's shows. He worked on the Tarax Show on Channel 9 with Happy Hammond and was cast in the annual pantomime shows with performers such as Joff Allen, Ron Blaskett, Patti McGrath and Frank Rich. Alan's dramatic career in television began with an appearance on Consider Your Verdict. Over the years he acted in Crawford's productions, appearing in shows such as Homicide, Ryan, Division 4, The Sullivans and Matlock Police. He played the ongoing character of ‘Albert James’ in the series Prisoner and had a role in
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the feature film Dimboola. He is remembered for his Coles & Garrard television commercial where he played the optician who uttered the catch phrase "Your glasses won't be a moment Mrs Jones". Alan was a keen railway enthusiast and he released two albums of train sounds which he performed himself. He wrote plays and monologues which were sold through various outlets including Will Andre in the city. I first met Alan Rowe through 96.5FM and he was a regular guest on That's Entertainment. We always looked forward to his appearances. Alan Rowe passed away in 1997 and I was glad that I made the visit to Geelong Hospital to say a final goodbye to a dear friend. Alan and Jean had two boys, Victor and Derek and two grandchildren Daniel and Sarah. Alan Rowe brought the gift of laughter into our lives. Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - on Nightline Thursdays at 10.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon
This is the world’s biggest building
■ When you are building the biggest passenger aeroplanes in the world, you need the biggest building in the world in terms of sheer volume, to build your aeroplanes in. Which is how the Boeing Corporation came to build a factory in Everett City in America’s Washington State that has an extraordinary 40ha of floor space, which is six hectares bigger than all of Disneyland, and roughly the same size as 59 football fields. And all-up has 13,000,000 cubic metres of space under one roof that’s some 30m high. Since 1968 Boeing has built over five-thousand wide-bodied aeroplanes in its Everett factory, 1546 of them its signature 747 Jumbo, 1116 the 767, plus 1560 777s, and 716 of its 787s. And with orders for a mind-boggling 1280 more wide-bodied jets already on the books and others coming in daily, it’s little wonder that Boeing’s factory, warehouses, company and visitor parking, and other
OK. With John O’Keefe ‘Quarters’ on crutches
● Steve Quartermain ■ Steve Quartermain is on crutche s following a recent op on his knee caused by years of wear and tear chasing footballs and ambulances as a young reporter. Life is as busy as ever for Steve as he is doing a deal of work for 3AW filling-in when Ross Stevenson went on a week’s holiday.
Hay Maker at Hay-mer Hall
● Biggest building by volume in the world – Boeing’s aircraft factory at Everett in America’s Washington State has a floor area that at 40ha is around the same size as 59 football fields. cafeterias that serve 25,000 meals a day, a day-care centre for children of Boeing’s staff, a shopping centre with cinema, its own fire department, and even a Boeing museum open to the public. And a mind-blowing 1-million light bulbs and fluorescent tubes to keep the inside of the factory lit as bright as daylight. Daily 4.5 hour visitor tours by trolley include the aircraft assembly line, the paint shop where it takes seven days to paint a Boeing 747 using 454 litres of paint, and even a look inside with David Ellis the amazing pilot flight simulator. Some 150,000 people a year do outdoor requirements, total-up to an these tours, that currently cost around amazing 415 hectares. As well, with 30,000 staff working A$130 per person. - David Ellis seven days a week, it has 20 separate
Struth
■ Men At Work’s Colin Hay will morph from Classic Rock to Classical when he makes his Melbourne Theatre Company debut in Shakespeare’s The Twelth Night. Debut is April 23 at Hamer Hall.
Lonnie is true performer
■ I had the pleasure of attending a nostalgic concert by the King of Rockability , Lonnie Lee. This man is a marvel – he’s aged 78 and still going strong to packed houses all aroundAustralia. Starting as a impersonator of Johnny Ray, he changed to rockabilly and was awarded five gold records, plus he won the Golden Mic Award in 1961 for Australia’s Most Popular Recording Star. His voice, diction and easy going manner make s his act a roll golden oldie.
Cricket microphone gesture
■ Test cricket will be broadcast on Foxtel this season with legendary player Adam Gilchrist at the helm. A nice gesture of Nine was to have the microphone that Richie Benaud broadcast over 40 tests while skipper at Nine’s broadcast team, presented to Gilchrist.
Home Alone star returns
■ After years and years of no Sshow, the one time boy actor Macauley Culkin bobbed up as category presenter at the 2018 American MusicAwards. Not a stray whisker in sight, he looked healthy but we’re not sure about being wealthy and wise . His only comment to reporters was “I’m fine, thank you”. - John O’Keefe
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Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings - by Charles Dickens So I says “if you’ll excuse my addressing the chair Professor Jackman I think the period of the lecture has now arrived when it becomes necessary that I should take a good hug of this young scholar.” Upon which Jemmy calls out from his station on the chair, “Gran oo open oor arms and me’ll make a ‘pring into ’em.” So I opened my arms to him as I had opened my sorrowful heart when his poor young mother lay a dying, and he had his jump and we had a good long hug together and the Major prouder than any peacock says to me behind his hand, “You need not let him know it Madam” (which I certainly need not for the Major was quite audible) “but he IS a boy!” In this way Jemmy grew and grew and went to day-school and continued under the Major too, and in summer we were as happy as the days were long, and in winter we were as happy as the days were short and there seemed to rest a Blessing on the Lodgings for they as good as Let themselves and would have done it if there had been twice the accommodation, when sore and hard against my will I one day says to the Major. “Major you know what I am going to break to you. Our boy must go to boarding-school.” It was a sad sight to see the Major’s countenance drop, and I pitied the good soul with all my heart. “Yes Major” I says, “though he is as popular with the Lodgers as you are yourself and though he is to you and me what only you and me know, still it is in the course of things and Life is made of partings and we must part with our Pet.” Bold as I spoke, I saw two Majors and half-adozen fireplaces, and when the poor Major put one of his neat bright-varnished boots upon the fender and his elbow on his knee and his head upon his hand and rocked himself a little to and fro, I was dreadfully cut up. “But” says I clearing my throat “you have so well prepared him Major — he has had such a Tutor in you — that he will have none of the first drudgery to go through. And he is so clever besides that he’ll soon make his way to the front rank.” “He is a boy” says the Major — having sniffed —“that has not his like on the face of the earth.” “True as you say Major, and it is not for us merely for our own sakes to do anything to keep him back from being a credit and an ornament wherever he goes and perhaps even rising to be a great man, is it Major? He will have all my little savings when my work is done (being all the world to me) and we must try to make him a wise man and a good man, mustn’t we Major?” “Madam” says the Major rising “Jemmy Jackman is becoming an older file than I was aware of, and you put him to shame. You are thoroughly right Madam. You are simply and undeniably right. — And if you’ll excuse me, I’ll take a walk.” So the Major being gone out and Jemmy being at home, I got the child into my little room here and I stood him by my chair and I took his mother’s own curls in my hand and I spoke to him loving and serious. And when I had reminded the darling how that he was now in his tenth year and when I had said to him about his getting on in life pretty much what I had said to the Major I broke to him how that we must have this same parting, and there I was forced to stop for there I saw of a sudden the well-remembered lip with its tremble, and it so brought back that time! But with the spirit that was in him he controlled it soon and he says gravely nodding through his tears, “I understand Gran — I know it MUST be, Gran — go on Gran, don’t be afraid of ME.” And when I had said all that ever I could think of, he turned his bright steady face to mine and he says just a little broken here and there “You shall see Gran that I can be a man and that I can do anything that is grateful and loving to you — and if I don’t grow up to be what you would like to have me — I hope it will be — because I shall die.” And with that he sat down by me and I went on to tell him of the school of which I had excellent recommendations and where it was and how many scholars and what games they played as I had heard and what length of holidays, to all of which he listened bright and clear. And so it came that at last he
school. “It is unquestionable that in intervals of cribbage and a friendly rubber, my dear Madam,” says the Major, “and also over what used to be called in my young times — in the salad days of Jemmy Jackman — the social glass, I have exchanged many a reminiscence with your Lodgers.” My remark was — I confess I made it with the deepest and artfullest of intentions —“I wish our dear boy had heard them!” “Are you serious Madam?” asked the Major starting and turning full round. “Why not Major?” “Madam” says the Major, turning up one of his cuffs, “they shall be written for him.” “Ah! Now you speak” I says giving my hands a pleased clap. “Now you are in a way out of moping Major!” “Between this and my holidays — I mean the dear boy’s” says the Major turning up his other cuff, “a good deal may be done towards it.” “Major you are a clever man and you have seen much and not a doubt of it.” “I’ll begin,” says the Major looking as tall as ever he did, “to- morrow.” My dear the Major was another man in three days and he was himself again in a week and he wrote and wrote and wrote with his pen scratching like rats behind the wainscot, and whether he had many grounds to go upon or whether he did at all romance I cannot tell you, but what he has written is in the left-hand glass closet of the little bookcase close behind you. CHAPTER II— HOW THE PARLOURS ADDED A FEW WORDS
I have the honour of presenting myself by the name of Jackman. I esteem it a proud privilege to go down to posterity through the instrumentality of the most remarkable boy that ever lived — by the name of JEMMY JACKMAN LIRRIPER — and of my most worthy and most highly respected friend, Mrs. Emma Lirriper, of Eighty-one, Norfolk Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is not for me to express the rapture with which we received that dear and eminently remarkable boy, on the occurrence of his first Christmas holidays. Suffice it to observe that when he came flying into the house with two splendid prizes (Arithmetic, and Exemplary Conduct), Charles Dickens Mrs. Lirriper and myself embraced with emosays “And now dear Gran let me kneel down “My dear Madam,” says the Major, “is there tion, and instantly took him to the Play, where here where I have been used to say my prayers ANY way of growing younger?” we were all three admirably entertained. and let me fold my face for just a minute in your Feeling that the Major was getting rather the Nor is it to render homage to the virtues of the gown and let me cry, for you have been more best of that point I made a diversion to another. best of her good and honoured sex — whom, in than father — more than mother — more than “Thirteen years! Thir-teen years! Many Lodg- deference to her unassuming worth, I will only brothers sisters friends — to me!” And so he ers have come and gone, in the thirteen years here designate by the initials E. L. — that I add did cry and I too and we were both much the that you have lived in the parlours Major.” this record to the bundle of papers with which better for it. “Hah!” says the Major warming. “Many our, in a most distinguished degree, remarkable From that time forth he was true to his word and Madam, many.” boy has expressed himself delighted, before reever blithe and ready, and even when me and “And I should say you have been familiar with consigning the same to the left-hand glass closet the Major took him down into Lincolnshire he them all?” of Mrs. Lirriper’s little bookcase. was far the gayest of the party though for sure “As a rule (with its exceptions like all rules) my Neither is it to obtrude the name of the old origiand certain he might easily have been that, but dear Madam” says the Major, “they have nal superannuated obscure Jemmy Jackman, he really was and put life into us only when it honoured me with their acquaintance, and not once (to his degradation) of Wozenham’s, long came to the last Good-bye, he says with a wist- unfrequently with their confidence.” (to his elevation) of Lirriper’s. If I could be conful look, “You wouldn’t have me not really sorry Watching the Major as he drooped his white sciously guilty of that piece of bad taste, it would would you Gran?” and when I says “No dear, head and stroked his black mustachios and indeed be a work of supererogation, now that Lord forbid!” he says “I am glad of that!” and moped again, a thought which I think must have the name is borne by JEMMY JACKMAN ran in out of sight. been going about looking for an owner some- LIRRIPER. But now that the child was gone out of the Lodg- where dropped into my old noddle if you will No, I take up my humble pen to register a little ings the Major fell into a regularly moping state. excuse the expression. record of our strikingly remarkable boy, which It was taken notice of by all the Lodgers that the “The walls of my Lodgings” I says in a casual my poor capacity regards as presenting a pleasMajor moped. He hadn’t even the same air of way — for my dear it is of no use going straight ant little picture of the dear boy’s mind. The being rather tall than he used to have, and if he at a man who mopes —“might have something picture may be interesting to himself when he is varnished his boots with a single gleam of inter- to tell if they could tell it.” a man. est it was as much as he did. The Major neither moved nor said anything but Our first reunited Christmas-day was the most One evening the Major came into my little room I saw he was attending with his shoulders my delightful one we have ever passed together. to take a cup of tea and a morsel of buttered dear — attending with his shoulders to what I Jemmy was never silent for five minutes, extoast and to read Jemmy’s newest letter which said. In fact I saw that his shoulders were struck cept in church-time. He talked as we sat by the had arrived that afternoon (by the very same by it. fire, he talked when we were out walking, he postman more than middle-aged upon the Beat “The dear boy was always fond of story-books” talked as we sat by the fire again, he talked now), and the letter raising him up a little I says I went on, like as if I was talking to myself. “I incessantly at dinner, though he made a dinner to the Major: am sure this house — his own home — might almost as remarkable as himself. It was the “Major you mustn’t get into a moping way.” write a story or two for his reading one day or spring of happiness in his fresh young heart flowThe Major shook his head. “Jemmy Jackman another.” ing and flowing, and it fertilised (if I may be Madam,” he says with a deep sigh, “is an older The Major’s shoulders gave a dip and a curve allowed so bold a figure) my much-esteemed file than I thought him.” and his head came up in his shirt-collar. The friend, and J. J. the present writer. “Moping is not the way to grow younger Ma- Major’s head came up in his shirt-collar as I There were only we three. We dined in my es jor.” hadn’t seen it come up since Jemmy went to Continued on Page 30
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From Page 29 teemed friend’s little room, and our entertainment was perfect. But everything in the establishment is, in neatness, order, and comfort, always perfect. After dinner our boy slipped away to his old stool at my esteemed friend’s knee, and there, with his hot chestnuts and his glass of brown sherry (really, a most excellent wine!) on a chair for a table, his face outshone the apples in the dish. We talked of these jottings of mine, which Jemmy had read through and through by that time; and so it came about that my esteemed friend remarked, as she sat smoothing Jemmy’s curls: “And as you belong to the house too, Jemmy — and so much more than the Lodgers, having been born in it — why, your story ought to be added to the rest, I think, one of these days.” Jemmy’s eyes sparkled at this, and he said, “So I think, Gran.” Then he sat looking at the fire, and then he began to laugh in a sort of confidence with the fire, and then he said, folding his arms across my esteemed friend’s lap, and raising his bright face to hers. “Would you like to hear a boy’s story, Gran?” “Of all things,” replied my esteemed friend. “Would you, godfather?” “Of all things,” I too replied. “Well, then,” said Jemmy, “I’ll tell you one.” Here our indisputably remarkable boy gave himself a hug, and laughed again, musically, at the idea of his coming out in that new line. Then he once more took the fire into the same sort of confidence as before, and began: “Once upon a time, When pigs drank wine, And monkeys chewed tobaccer, ’Twas neither in your time nor mine, But that’s no macker —” “Bless the child!” cried my esteemed friend, “what’s amiss with his brain?” “It’s poetry, Gran,” returned Jemmy, shouting with laughter. “We always begin stories that way at school.” “Gave me quite a turn, Major,” said my esteemed friend, fanning herself with a plate. “Thought he was light-headed!” “In those remarkable times, Gran and godfather, there was once a boy — not me, you know.” “No, no,” says my respected friend, “not you. Not him, Major, you understand?” “No, no,” says I. “And he went to school in Rutlandshire —” “Why not Lincolnshire?” says my respected friend. “Why not, you dear old Gran? Because I go to school in Lincolnshire, don’t I?” “Ah, to be sure!” says my respected friend. “And it’s not Jemmy, you understand, Major?” “No, no,” says I. “Well!” our boy proceeded, hugging himself comfortably, and laughing merrily (again in confidence with the fire), before he again looked up in Mrs. Lirriper’s face, “and so he was tremendously in love with his schoolmaster’s daughter, and she was the most beautiful creature that ever was seen, and she had brown eyes, and she had brown hair all curling beautifully, and she had a delicious voice, and she was delicious altogether, and her name was Seraphina.” “What’s the name of YOUR schoolmaster’s daughter, Jemmy?” asks my respected friend. “Polly!” replied Jemmy, pointing his forefinger at her. “There now! Caught you! Ha, ha, ha!” When he and my respected friend had had a laugh and a hug together, our admittedly remarkable boy resumed with a great relish: “Well! And so he loved her. And so he thought about her, and dreamed about her, and made her presents of oranges and nuts, and would have made her presents of pearls and diamonds if he could have afforded it out of his pocketmoney, but he couldn’t. And so her father — O, he WAS a Tartar! Keeping the boys up to the mark, holding examinations once a month, lecturing upon all sorts of subjects at all sorts of times, and knowing everything in the world out of book. And so this boy —” “Had he any name?” asks my respected friend. “No, he hadn’t, Gran. Ha, ha! There now! Caught you again!” After this, they had another laugh and another hug, and then our boy went on. “Well! And so this boy, he had a friend about as old as himself at the same school, and his name (for He HAD a name, as it happened) was — let me remember — was Bobbo.” “Not Bob,” says my respected friend. “Of course not,” says Jemmy. “What made you think it was, Gran? Well! And so this friend was
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Bleak House
Chapter I— In Chancery London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with
flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes — gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foothold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time — as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look. The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leadenheaded old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery. Never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this High Court of Chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds this day in the sight of heaven and earth. On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting her — as here he is — with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog. On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be — as here they are — mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horsehair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might. On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers, who made a fortune by it, ought to be — as are they not? — ranged in a line, in a long matted well (but you might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar’s red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters’ reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them. Well may the court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the stained-glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well may the uninitiated from the streets, who peep in through the glass panes in the door, be deterred from entrance by its owlish aspect and by the drawl, languidly echoing to the roof from the padded dais where the Lord High Chancellor looks into the lantern that has no light in it and where the attendant wigs are all stuck in a fogbank! This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man’s acquaintance,
which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, “Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!” Who happen to be in the Lord Chancellor’s court this murky afternoon besides the Lord Chancellor, the counsel in the cause, two or three counsel who are never in any cause, and the well of solicitors before mentioned? There is the registrar below the judge, in wig and gown; and there are two or three maces, or petty-bags, or privy purses, or whatever they may be, in legal court suits. These are all yawning, for no crumb of amusement ever falls from Jarndyce and Jarndyce (the cause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The shorthand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers invariably decamp with the rest of the regulars when Jarndyce and Jarndyce comes on. Their places are a blank. Standing on a seat at the side of the hall, the better to peer into the curtained sanctuary, is a little mad old woman in a squeezed bonnet who is always in court, from its sitting to its rising, and always expecting some incomprehensible judgment to be given in her favour. Some say she really is, or was, a party to a suit, but no one knows for certain because no one cares. She carries some small litter in a reticule which she calls her documents, principally consisting of paper matches and dry lavender. A sallow prisoner has come up, in custody, for the half-dozenth time to make a personal application “to purge himself of his contempt,” which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge, he is not at all likely ever to do. In the meantime his prospects in life are ended. Another ruined suitor, who periodically appears from Shropshire and breaks out into efforts to address the Chancellor at the close of the day’s business and who can by no means be made to understand that the Chancellor is legally ignorant of his existence after making it desolate for a quarter of a century, plants himself in a good place and keeps an eye on the judge, ready to call out “My Lord!” in a voice of sonorous complaint on the instant of his rising. A few lawyers’ clerks and others who know this suitor by sight linger on the chance of his furnishing some fun and enlivening the dismal weather a little. Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere bills of mortality; there are not three Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless. Jarndyce and Jarndyce has passed into a joke. That is the only good that has ever come of it. It has been death to many, but it is a joke in the profession. Every master in Chancery has had a reference out of it. Every Chancellor was “in it,” for somebody or other, when he was counsel at the bar. Good things have been said about it by blue-nosed, bulbous-shoed old benchers in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall. Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it. The last Lord Chancellor handled it neatly, when, correcting Mr. Blowers, the eminent silk gown who said that such a thing might happen when the sky rained potatoes, he observed, “or when we get through Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Mr. Blowers” — a pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses.
To Be Continued Next Issue
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Victoria Cup goes to NSW ■ Former Kiwi 8Y0 entire Tiger Tara was a brilliant victor of the (Group 1) $200,000 Pryde’s Easifeed Victoria Cup at Tabcorp Park Melton last Saturday giving Rossmoor trainer Kevin Pizzuto and reinsman Todd McCarthy their biggest wins to date in Victoria. It was thought some eight weeks ago that the horse may never race again when involved in a horrific road accident, with Kevin having to pull him free of a wrecked float, but to the horses great intestinal fortitude, here he was winning the state’s second biggest feature for open class pacers. Driven with aggression from gate two as the mobile pulled away in the 2240 metre feature, Tiger Tara with full speed up was able to cross pole marker Gotta Go Ya Hu one of three runners from the Menangle barn of Shane and Lauren Tritton entering the back straight on the first occasion. The hot favourite Chicago Bull from Western Australia wasn’t used out of the gate from barrier three settling just off the speed as Mach Doro (gate 5) another of the NSW contingent eventually crossed to lead up the outside division giving Franco Nelson cover after he had worked extremely hard from gate six to settle outside the winner. With around 1500 metres to travel, Gary Hall (Jnr) set Chicago Bull alight with a rush to park outside Tiger Tara for the final circuit with the pair going together for the last lap. Just when everyone expected Chicago Bull to really turn on the pressure prior to the home turn, Tiger Tara in sections of 30.7, 28.9, 26.3 and 27.7 for the last half mile, went into another gear and raced clear on straightening to record a 12.2 metre margin in a 1-53.4 mile rate over Chicago Bull who battled on courageously, with bonny mare Carlas Pixel gaining inside runs from mid-field on the markers third a half head away. Franco Nelson was fourth with the disappointment being Shadow Sax which weakened badly to finish in tenth place after leading up the three wide line from the bell. A winner of the prestigious New Zealand Sires Stakes at three, Tiger Tara a son of Bettors Delight and Tara Gold has raced on 91 occasions for 29 wins and 33 placings, earning stakes in excess of $1,514,000.
Taken wide
■ Maryborough was the venue for trots on Monday October 8and Chintin (Macedon Ranges) trainer Ken Ward combined with Monegeetta's David Miles to land the Britannia Hotel Carisbrook Pace for C1 class over 1690 metres with improving 6Y0 Village Jasper-Skipper Patricia gelding Village Skipper. Showing no speed from the pole, Village Skipper became buried three back along the markers as Clem McArdle sped out from gate five to lead. When the well supported Lets Jazz It Up eased three wide from the one/one spot in the last lap, Miles extricated Village Skipper into the clear to follow her home. Taken wide on straightening, Village Skipper finished his race off well to get up right on the wire by a head, with Lils Agle third after racing in the open. The mile rate 1-58.
Dictated terms
■ Buangor's Louis Franc was successful with more than handy Village Jolt-Bianca Jasper 5Y0 gelding Franco Jolto at Maryborough, taking out the Newsxpress Maryborough Pace for C1 class over 1690 metres. With Burrumbeet's James Herbertson in the sulky, Franco Jolto starting from the extreme draw was sent forward shortly after the start to park outside the pacemaker Goodtime Junior, dictating terms to suit. Applying plenty of pressure approaching the final bend, Franco Jolto answered the call and strode clear, holding a margin all the way up the running to record a strong 1.3 metre margin in advance of Polar Opposite which trailed the weakening leader, getting clear late, with Timmys Reject (three back the markers) third 5.4 metres away.
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■ Terang trainer Mattie Craven's run of luck on a Monday continued when 6Y0 Village Jasper-Beloka Diamond mare Diamond Jasper taking a concession for Darby McQuigan scored in the 2190 metre C1 & C2 class Sam Wright Memorial Pace and sensationally backed 4Y0 Somebeachsomewhere-Mother Courage entire Oursomebeachsomewhere first up since March, led throughout from gate three to blitz his rivals in the Skinners Building Supplies Pace for C0 class over 1690 metres in 1-56.7, winning by 8.2 metres.
Used sprint lane
■ Strathfieldsaye mentor Glenn Douglas has had outstanding success over the years with former New Zealanders including a Kilmore Cup in 2008 with Bold Cruiser and produced a 4Y0 mare by the name of Easton Foxglove to land the J & A Mazzetti Pace for C0 class over 2180 metres at a disappointing six event card at Kilmore in wet conditions last Tuesday. A daughter of Washington Vc and Easton Foxy Lady driven by Glenn, Easton Foxglove was having her first outing since winning at Winton in the deep south on May 18. Enjoying the run of the race from gate two trailing Terror Rising inside her, Easton Foxglove using the sprint lane, prevailed by 1.3 metres over the pacemaker in a mile rate of 205.7, with Sassyola third two metres away after racing exposed.
Raced wide ■ Long Forest trainerAndy Gath combined with Alex Ashwood aboard 5Y0 Muscle Hill-Class Of Her Own mare Classy Lola in the 2180 metre Trackside Bistro Trotters Mobile for TR0 class at Kilmore. Starting from the extreme draw, Classy Lola was given time to balance before going forward four wide to race outside the leader The Debater (gate 4) prior to the bell. Surging to the front approaching the home turn, Classy Lola was too strong for her rivals, scoring by 17.3 metres in advance of Coco Culture (three wide at bell) and Spiders Devil which raced wide in the last lap. The mile rate 2-09.4.
Weakened at end ■ At Kilmore Nagambie reinswoman Marika Eriksson snared the HRTC Bendigo Concessional Drivers Pace for C1 class over 2180 metres with Shadow Play-Shalon 6Y0 mare Heavenly Shades in a rate of 2-06.7. Trained at Avenel by David Aiken, Heavenly Shades from gate four was given a sweet passage following the leader Lighting Colony which flew away from gate five for Mitch Turnbull. Using the sprint lane, Heavenly Shades finished best to defeat the trotter Our Dreamlover which faced the breeze by a neck, with Lighting Colony weakening to finish third 4.2 metres away.
● Tiger Tara in the Victoria Cup
Heaps of potential
■ Wallan trainer Ruth Shinn's 5Y0 Rocknroll Hanover-Albertique gelding Albarock who has always shown heaps of potential since his juvenile days was victorious in the Guardline Security Services Pace for C2 & C3 class over 2190 metres at Shepparton on Wednesday. Bred and raced by husband Noel, Albarock driven by son Chris began fast to lead from gate four, with Chris electing to hand over the front running to Rockon Angel which started outside him. Enjoying a cosy trip, Albarock looked in trouble in the last lap as both Arty Guy and Dream To Share ran past the leader. Extricated into the clear approaching the home turn, Albarock's quality told over the concluding stages, scoring by a neck from Dream To Share and Arty Guy in a 1-59 mile rate.
Rough run
■ Bendigo (Shelbourne) trainer Michelle Eastman's 6Y0 Sundon-Insulated geldingAleppo Murphy was on his best behaviour to land the Cardigan Boko Trotters Handicap for T1 or better class over 2190 metres at Shepparton. An in and out customer who is hard to catch at times, Aleppo Murphy starting from 30 metres stepped a little roughly from 30 metres before gaining composure with Chris Alford intent to bide time at the rear of the field as Rosehill Magic crossed Conchs Critter to assume control midrace. Going forward three wide uncovered in the final circuit, Aleppo Murphy ran home best to defeat Rosehill Magic by 2 metres, in a rate of 203.4. Ever reliable Nica McDonon (one/one) was third 4.3 metres away.
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was too strong at the finish, defeating The Black Coat which followed him all the way by 9.5 metres, with Wingman Fling (three wide last lap from the tail) third 2.3 metres away. The mile rate 2-08.5.
Eased three wide
■ Popular owner John Hawke's 5Y0 Muscle Mass-Mystic Hush gelding Carnera resuming from injury, was most impressive in winning the 2575 metre Yabby Dam Racing Trotters Handicap for T1 or better class at Geelong. Having his first outing since July. Carnera trained and driven by Lance Justice starting from an equal 30 metre backmark spent most of the race at the rear as Ventimiglia crossed Im Notta Trotter to lead. Moving three wide racing for the bell, Carnera was able to slot in one/one for a short breather in the final circuit before again easing three wide prior to the home turn. Sprinting brilliantly, Carnera dashed to the front on turning to win by 8 metres in a breeze over Zoomas Legend and William John, returning a mile rate of 2-03.8.
■ Local Kialla trainer Clive Dalton was successful at his home track when lightly raced Run With Joe-Bolshoi Belle 5Y0 gelding Almightyjoelouis greeted the judge in the 1690 metre DPR Insurance Pace for C1 class. With Greg Sugars in the sulky, Allmightyjoelouis went forward from gate five to take over shorly after the start and rated to perfection, held too many guns for Amelia Holmes from mid-field and a death-seating ■ Bolinda's Lisa Miles enjoyed a great night at Maken Art Magic in 1-57.3. The margins 12.3 X Geelong with Nota Replica scoring in the Jims Mowing Pace for C2 & C3 class over 2100 1.7 metres. metres and Highview Starzzz the 1609 metre Ray Beckley Night 25th October Pace for C1 class. Nota Replica (Courage Under Fire-Telern ■ At Geelong on Thursday, youthful Ross Creek Hilda) ran home from last to prevail by a half owner/trainer Brent Jewell would have been all head from Keayang Shekitout and Vandanta in smiles after his 6Y0 Lawman-Noopy Dua geld- 2-00.8, while Highview Starzzz (Four Starzzz ing Noopy Enforcer broke his maiden status at Shark-Krysta) peeled three wide off a one/one start number 41 by taking the Flying Brick Cider trip to defeat Tenfour and Our Summer Wind in Co. Trotters Mobile for T0 class over 2100 1-58.2. metres. Driven by Ararat freelance Michael Bellman, Noopy Enforcer was trapped in the open from gate four as Mel Durant flew away from gate ■ Inter Dominion aspirant San Carlo resumed at Mildura on Friday and was most impressive five to lead. Gaining cover with a circuit to travel after after racing uncovered to capture the 1790 metre Soh Twisted moved away from three back the $10,000 Natale & Camera Italian Cup for C5 or markers to park out, Noopy Enforcer had a short better class in a terrific mile rate of 1-55.9, debreather before easing three wide approaching feating South Australian Mymatethomo and Brocks Territory which led. the home turn. - Len Baker Surging clear shortly after, Noopy Enforcer
Ran home from last
Followed all way
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● Julie Houghton appears in She and He – My Life with Chopin ■ She and He – My Life with Chopin explores the pivitol relationships in Chopin’s life, his love of the human voice and his rarely heard Polish songs. The show will be presented on Monday, October 29, at 6pm at the Melbourne Recital Centre. This Melbourne-based ensemble, The Parlour and guests, use drama and song to present the life and music of Frederic Chopin. In the foreground of this story is Chopin’s celebrated relationship with the writer George Sand. Told from the view point of Sand’s daughter Solange, the audience is guided on a journey from the glittering Salons of Paris, through a bitter Winter in Majorca to Chopin’s remarkable funeral and unconventional burial. Hear Chopin’s lovely but rarely heard Polish songs which will be performed by Polish singer-actor Irena Grainge, as well as selections from Chopin’s collaborations with his close friend Pauline Viardot along with some of his splendid and much-loved piano solos. Bringing to The Salon the women in Chopin’s life are actors Eva Justine Torkkola as Solange and Julie Houghton as Minette, with Irena Grainge as Countess Delfina Potocka. Internationally acclaimed pianist David LempriereLaughton will bring his magical hands to the piano, with the superb voices of mezzo-soprano Karen Van Spall, tenor Douglas Kelly tenor and baritone Adam Miller delighting the audience with the great master’s songs. And while Chopin is regarded as a French musical master, his heart always belonged to Poland – so when he died, his heart was cut out and returned to the homeland he loved so much. Event Date: Monday, October 29 at 6pm Venue: Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre, Cnr. Southbank Boulevard and Sturt Street Tickets: $39/$29 (concession) Bookings: www.melbournerecital.com or Box Office 9699 3333 Duration: One hour - Cheryl Threadgold
Circus Oz Rock Bang
● Kitty van Horne ■ Kitty Van Horne returns to The Butterfly Club on October 17, 18, 20 to present iDenTITTY. “After months of moving about the house with my shoulders hunched and chest awkwardly concave, my mum has no choice but to take action. She drives me to the local mall to acquire my very first bra. It is November 1993. I am 10 years old. “Twenty-five years, 8 cup sizes and hundreds of bras later, I wonder how much my breasts have impacted on my life, my view of the world and its view of me.” A singer from a young age, Kitty has always relished any opportunity to perform. When she entered the Sydney Burlesque scene in the mid 2000s her love of entertaining and her appreciation for vintage fashion and design found the perfect outlet. For the next six years she shared her special brand of cabaret and musical theatre inspired burlesque routines with audiences in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Before relocating to Melbourne in 2016, Kitty was proud to be one third of the Sydney harmony group ‘The Hollywood Honeys’. She has also dabbled in community musical theatre productions. Dates: Wednesday October 17, Thursday October 18 and Saturday October 20 (no Friday show) Time: 8.30pm Cost: $27-34 Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: https://thebutterflyclub.com/show/identitty-2018 - Cheryl Threadgold
Muriel’s Wedding
● Kevin Trask and Natalie Abbott. Photo: Peter Kemp ■ Muriel's Wedding The Musical, based on the popular Australian film will open at Her Majesty's Theatre in March . Natalie Abbott will play the lead role of ‘Muriel’ and Elizabeth Esguerra has been cast as her best friend ‘Rhonda’. I attended the launch of Muriel's Wedding, and director Simon Phillips introduced Natalie to the media. Natalie sang a great song from the show titled The Bouquet and it was sensational. Muriel's Wedding The Musical has music and lyrics by Australian award winning songwriters Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall with additional songs by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Stig Anderson written for ABBA. Tickets on sale now from www.ticketmaster.com.au - Kevin Trask
● Otto and Astrid. Photo: Andrew Wuttke. ■ Circus Oz: Rock Bang is being presented from November 15-25 at The Coopers Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre. Rock Bang is a circus rock opera –an energetic concoction and spectacle that shows off acrobatics ‘with one of the most solid and infamous musical duos ever created’. Rounding out their 40th year celebrations, Circus Oz has co-created this rock’n’roll extravaganza with Otto and Astrid from the band Die Roten Punkte. Circus Oz Artistic Director, Rob Tannion, explains, “We are so thrilled to finally premiere this exclusive season of Rock Bang – a riotous hard-rocking Circus Oz explosion detonated by Otto and Astrid. “It combines loud rock music, big speakers, unapologetic circus skills and tricks, alongside plenty of stupidity and laughter.” Utterly dysfunctional siblings Otto and Astrid attempt to tell their fantastical life story as orphans and growing up in artist filled squats to become the darlings of Berlin’s underground rock scene. Distracted and inspired by the extraordinary bendy feats of the Circus Oz acrobats, Otto and Astrid quickly descend into squabbling, throwing rehearsed circus routines and songs into chaos. "We’ve been waiting our whole lives to make a rock opera with our songs and Circus Oz have helped us to take this dream to a whole new level with the bendiest people in Australia,” said Otto and Astrid. Performance Season: November 15 - 25 Times: 8pm Wed. – Fri., 3pm and 8pm Sat., 5pm Sun Duration: 120 minutes (including 20 minute interval) Location: The Coopers Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre Address: 113 Sturt Street, Southbank Tickets: $40 – $59 (including booking fee) Bookings: malthousetheatre.com.au or 9685 5111 - Cheryl Threadgold
Showbiz Briefs
■ Michael Roddan has started in The Australian's Canberra bureau. He will be covering politics, economics and regulation. ■ Lenore Taylor is taking over as Chair of the Walkley Advisory Board. ■ Jacqueline Felgate has commenced her supplementary new role as Seven News weekend sports presenter
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By Rob Foenander info@countrycrossroads.com.au
Carter’s win ■ Kinglake husband and wife team, Carter and Carter, have won the Australian Independent Group/Duo of The Year Award at the 2018 Mildura Country Music Festival for their single, Better Day. David and Merelyn are now preparing for their songwriting workshop to be held at the Cheeky Fox retreat, Kinglake, commencing Friday, November 2. www.carter-carter.com
Man Out Of Time ■ Australian music legend Broderick Smith has released his first album in 10 years. Melbourne fans can catch him at the Skylark Room, Upwey, on Friday, November 9, or the Merri Creek Tavern, Northcote, Friday, November 16. The album Man Out Of Time and its song list plus tracks from his extensive catalogue of Aussie classics are sure to be showcased at his concerts. It comes on the back of his recent first book release of the same title. www.brodericksmith.com
Honky Tonkin
■ The Rooks Return bar in Fitzroy gives music lovers a treat of Western Swing and Country music on Thursday nights. A number of different acts take to the stage from 8.30pm till late offering a mix of covers and original material at 201 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. - Rob Foenander
Aboriginal Contemporary Art Review: Dusty Masters of Aboriginal Contemporary Art Minnie Pwerle. Celebrating the work of one of the world's great painters Minnie Pwerle (1929 - 2006) grew up at Utopia, a former cattle station 300 km northeast from Alice Springs, home to the Anmatjerre language group. The story of her life was one of struggle and endurance. In 1999, at the age of 80, she took up painting and soon gained national recognition. The use of her brushstrokes and bold vibrant colours became her trademark, as did paintings of small bush melons and women's body-painting designs. The exhibition surveys Minnie Pwerle's oeuvre and features a series of unseen paintings including the very first ones she produced in 1999. Exhibition closes November 25. Burrinja Gallery 351 Glenfern Rd, Upwey - Peter Kemp
Bendigo Art Gallery Gothic Beauty From a 19th century Victorian horse-drawn hearse, to the pulsating futurist video work of Jess Johnson, Gothic Beauty traces early Victorian rituals of mourning and the pursuit of 'pleasurable terror' evident from the 1800s to contemporary times. The exhibition, curated by and exclusive to Bendigo Art Gallery, includes dark and evocative works by contemporary artists Jane Burton, Bill Henson, Michael Vale and Janet Beckhouse, amongst others; alongside historic pre-Raphaelite paintings and objects, mourning jewellery and costumes drawn from public and private collections. By the early 19th century, Gothic literature had become commonplace, and the ideals, including feelings of horror and escapism and the beauty and the sublime of landscapes, manifested throughout art and society and continue to endure into modern times. Exhibition closes February 10. Bendigo Art Gallery 42 View St, Bendigo - Peter Kemp
Walker St Gallery ■ City of Greater Dandenong’s annual exhibition, Home, has announced six shortlisted artists from a refugee or asylum seeker background. Their artworks will be on display at the Walker Street Gallery. Selected by a panel of specialists from within creative industries, curator David O’Halloran
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Wednesday Thursday October 17 October 18
■ American dramtist Arthur Miller was born in 1915. He died aged 89 in 2005. He was married to Marilyn Monroe for four years. US actress Rita Hayworth was born in 1918, and died in 1987 (68). Singer Gary Puckett is 75 today (1942).
■ US rock n roller Chuck Berry was born in 1926. Actor George C Scott was born in 1927. He died aged 71 in 1999. US actress Pam Dawber (Mork and Mindy) is 67 (1951). Singer-dancer Jackie Love (Immelman) is 57.
Melbourne Arts announces the national shortlisted artists, Amir Tehrami, Tadros Hanna, Mirwais Janbaz, Lobsan Choyou, Zia Atahi and Elyas Alvi. Exhibition October 18 – November 24. Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre CnrWalker and Robinson Sts, Dandenong. - Peter Kemp
National Gallery Factory of the Sun - Hito Steyerl The National Gallery of Victoria presents the Australian premiere of the ground-breaking video installation Factory of the Sun by German-born artist Hito Steyerl, who was named the number one artist onArtreview's 2017 Power 100 list. Factory of the Sun, 2015, first shown at the 2015 German Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, is a fully-immersive installation tells the dystopian story of a group of workers in a labour camp. The participants are forced to perform choreographed dance routines and their movements are transformed into a valuable commodity: artificial sunshine. Exhibition closes March 24. National Gallery of Victoria 150 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne - Peter Kemp
MUMA Teeth Gums Machines Future Society Lili Reynaud-Dewar Exoplanets-Alicia Frankovich A future beyond existing binaries is at the heart of French artist Lili Reynard-Dewar and New Zealand artist Alicia Frankovich. Teeth Gums Machines Future Society explores the city's rich history of civil rights and labour struggles, its musical legacy, Donna Haraway's 1985 iconic A Cyborg Manifesto, and teeth grills, mouth jewellery that rose to prominence in the 80s and took off in the hip-hop and rap community in the mid-2000s. Exhibition opened October 6 and closes December 15. Open Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm . Entry Free MUMA Monash University Museum Ground Floor, building F,. Monash University Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield East - Peter Kemp
■ A unique interpretation of Dusty – the Original Pop Diva is playing until October 20 at the Whitehorse Centre, presented by Babirra Music Theatre. Based on the book by John-Michael Howson, David Mitchell and Melvyn Morrow, the show tells the (mostly) biographical story of British pop-star icon and record-producer Dusty Springfield, including her relationship with the fictitious Reno. Born Mary O’Brien in London, 1939, musically-gifted Dusty acquired her nickname from being a tomboy. We follow her career, performing with her brother, the pop-folk trio ‘The Springfields’, and her sensational solo career. Her alter-ego, young Mary O’Brien, remains in Dusty’s consciousness throughout her turbulent life. Director Christian Cavallo’s research of queer dramaturgy studies and the biography Dancing With Demons, empowers this production to explore darker, ethereal elements of Dusty’s life. Jacob Battista’s set design, mostly comprising background and side curtains, basic furniture/props, with Daniel Gosling’s lighting and Steve Cooke’s sound design, work effectively to showcase Dusty’s story, allowing her to shine forefront. Emily McKenzie is perfectly cast as Dusty Springfield, using her powerful vocals to belt out the songs and her beautiful acting skills to portray Dusty’s roller-coaster life. Phoebe Bourke delights as Dusty’s alter-ego, Mary O’Brien, while Sarahlouise Younger (Dusty’s symbolic lover, Reno), presents a credible, nicely controlled characterisation. First-rate performances are also enjoyed from charismatic James Ness (MC Terry Wogan), Jennie Kellaway (Kay O’Brien), Garry Barcham (Gerard O’Brien), Zachary Alaimo (Rodney), Ashley Taylor (Peg), Michael Syme (Tom Springfield), Brendy Ford (Lusty Dusty) and realistically speaking, from the whole cast. Choreographer Jessica Mohl’s dance routines are fabulous. Sharp, visually commanding with unpredictability, and well- presented by vibrant, energetic performers. StaceyLouise Camilleri’s orchestra renders the wonderful tunes with gusto, and Leonie Campbell’s costume design mixes glitz, glamour and era authenticity. Wigs (Maren Holm) were terrific for conveying different eras. Dusty Springfield’s music lives forever, cleverly conveyed by Cavallo and his team by the sparkling performers presenting Dusty’s songs in the Megamix finale. A lovely touch by the Ushers wearing dusty-pink lapel roses. Congratulations on a top show. - Review by Cheryl Threadgold Melbourne
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■ Happy birthday to Melbourne Observer Editor Ash Long. He is 62 Poet Adam Lindsay Gordon was born in The Azzores in 1833, and died aged 36 in 1870. Cricketer Bill Ponsford was born in 1900. He died aged 90 in 1991.
Saturday October 20 ■ Hungarian-born Hollywood actor Bela Lugosi was born in 1882. Died aged 73 in 1956. The late Dr Joyce Brothers was born on this day. American singer Wanda Jackson is 78. Her best seller was Let’s Have A Party. Australian actor Mark Hembrow is 63.
Sunday October 21 ■ US trumpeter John ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie was born in 1917. He died aged 75 in 1993. Cricketer Geoffrey Boycott is 78 (1940). Judge Judy (Judy Sheindlin nee Blum) is 76 (1942). US socialite Kim Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1980 (38).
Monday October 22
■ ‘Curly’ Howard (Jerome Horwitz), one of The Three Stooges, was born in 1903. He died aged 48. His brother Shemp replaced him. English actor Sir Derek Jacobi is 80. US actor Jeff Goldblum is 66. The late Annette Joanne Funicello was born on this day.
Tuesday October 23 ■ English actor Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) was born in 1931. She died aged 52 in 1984. US country singer Dwight Yoakam is 62. He toured Australia three years ago. Tonight show host Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa. in 1935. He died in 2005, aged 79.
Thanks to GREG NEWMAN of Jocks Journal for assistance with birthday and anniversary dates. Jocks Journal is Australia’s longest running radio industry publication. ■ Melbourne Find out more at www.jocksjournal.com
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Gothic ■ Award-winning composer Andrée Greenwell presents Gothic on November 25 at Arts Centre Melbourne. Gothic, a multidisciplinary, eerie and elegant music performance, surveys European, Australian and American expressions of ‘gothic’ from medieval to contemporary times . Featuring songs by The Cure, Kate Bush and Michael Jackson alongside new songs with lyrics by leading Australian writers, Gothic features stunning motion graphics by London-based artist Michaela French, projected across three ‘floating’ gothic-shaped screens. Featured songs by Greenwell include Death at the Beach Motel about the death of Australian artist Brett Whiteley (with specially commissioned lyrics by Hugo Race, founding member of the Bad Seeds); The Birds after Daphne du Maurier’s short story set in Cornwall, famously adapted for cinema by Hitchcock and a ‘Totentanz’ or ‘death-dance’ inspired by the European medieval frescoes. The performance is bookended by songs created from poems by Edgar Allan Poe including Annabel Lee and The Bells and also features song lyrics by Alison Croggon, Hilary Bell, Maryanne Lynch and Felicity Plunkett. Andrée Greenwell established Green Room Music in 1997 to create innovative performance and screen works that are composition-led. She has worked as an independent artist with leading organisations including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, Arts House, Vivid, Bell Shakespeare Company, Riverside, Melbourne Festival, Chronology Arts Sydney Writers Festival, the ABC and Carriageworks. Andrée’s ground-breaking chamber opera Sweet Death, based upon Claude Tardat’s Le Mort Sucré, in which the heroine wilfully gorges herself to death on gourmet pastries and sweets, was commissioned by Melbourne Festival, produced by Chamber Made Opera and broadcast by the ABC. Performance Date: November 25 Venue: Arts Centre Melbourne Further Information: https:// www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/en/whatson/2018/contemporary-music/gothic - Cheryl Threadgold
Performance Management Song For A Weary Throat ■ Forget waiting for the circus to come to town ... it all plays out in every office every day and everywhere from 9-5. From the two-faced antics of corporate clowns and frenetic multi-tasking jugglers to a cavalcade of cubicle crazies, take a ringside seat for Performance Management at Chapel off Chapel, December 12 - 16. A sell-out show when it first debuted in Melbourne in 2015, Performance Management has been described as Horrible Bosses meets The Office. Drawn from producer, writer and star, Scott Hollingsworth’s extensive real life corporate career in employee management, this satirical comedy cabaret explores everything from job interviews and unfair dismissal to those little white lies on a CV and chucking a sickie once too often. From recruitment to termination and every non politically correct situation in between, Hollingsworth, as The Ringmaster, cracks the (literal) whip to remind everyone who’s Boss. Completing the team roster, The Larrikin Lion (Joshua Fielding), The High Flyer (Aerialist - Jessica Robbins) and Sexy Strongman (Murat Yilmaz) join the mayhem for a real threering circus. Hit after spoofed hit from the likes of pop icons Lady Gaga,Adele and Britney Spears get a cheeky rework and even beloved children’s Disney classics from Mary Poppins and The Little Mermaid are not safe in the Ringmaster’s world. Extended from its original version and including new songs and performances, Performance Management is for everyone that works in an office as the laugh-out-loud scenarios prove every office is indeed a circus.
● Scott Hollingsworth (The Ringmaster) in Performance Management. Performance Dates: December 12 – 16 at 8pm (Sun at 7pm) Venue: Chapel off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St., Prahran Tickets: Full$38, Conc $34, Group $32, Family (2 adult,2 children) $95. Bookings: chapel@stonnington.vic.gov.au or 8290 7000. - Cheryl Threadgold
`Tis The Season
After Hero ■ A piece of theatre in three distinct acts. staged by Monash University Centre for Theatre and Performance in association with Coopers Malthouse Theatre, writers Jean Tong and Jessica Bellamy created a new work that in their words is “ a work for everyone who is tired of the same old stories, because we are too”. Act One by Jean Tong takes some understanding through a wandering script with the continuity of sequences not necessarily fluent. On a stage littered with random books and a central ring of books, which could be likened to the circle of life and learning, while inside the circle a drum providing rhythm for staged choreography. Using Greek myths and a Greek Chorus and through Wolfie Sun as the Hero we are challenged by gender normality and the reimagining of Greek Mythology with the chorus seeking out their life’s conduit. Jessica Bellamy’s Act Two was a clever and times provocative recreation of Jewish refugees sailing into a so termed New World. While Act one had a central Hero we now had six individual identities, hopeful of what lies ahead for them as they sail to an unknown continent. Turn To Page 60
● Stacey Thomsett and Maverick Newman in ‘Tis the Season. ■ ‘Tis the Season will be presented at The Theatre, Maverick Newman and Stacey Butterfly Club from December 10-15. Thomsett are excited to perform the show in Winner of the prestigious Julie Michael their home town of Melbourne. Cabaret Award, ’Tis the Season plays Thomsett is known for such roles as Elle in Melbourne for a strictly limited season. Legally Blonde: The Musical (GPAC) and Four-time Green Room AwardnomineeMav- Daniella in In The Heights (WAAPA) and erick Newman and fellow WAAPA graduate Newman, a rising star of cabaret with four Green Stacey Thomsett bring to life a comedy about Room Award nominations from his debut onedivorce, dysfunction, love and Christmas. comedy Finding Felix: A Memoir, which ’Tis the Season is a completely original one man toured national and was featured on SBS. act musical comedy cabaret. Dates: December 10, 12, (no show DecemThe show follows siblings, Bonnie and ber 11), 13, 14 15 Bailey, performing their annual Christmas CabaTime: 7 pm ret for their family, however this year they are Cost: $25-34 fed up with the behaviour of their family and Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, attempt to instil a sense of normality and peace for the big day… there’s only so much you can Melbourne Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com sweep under the carpet. - Cheryl Threadgold Fresh from WAAPA’s Bachelor of Music
● Leisa Prowd Ryan New and Paul Mately in Song for a Weary Throat. Photo: Sarah Walker ■ “What propels us to get up after trauma, after heartbreak, after loss… after failure?” asks Kate Sulan the Director of Song for a Weary Throat, a unique exploration of shifting human emotions and psychological states - from desperation and fury to pain, hope and emancipation in an exceptional theatrical performance. Through a narrative of dramatic tableaus, fervent vignettes, and spasmodic interpretive dances, viewers are invited to interpret what they see, hear and feel. An outstanding show in the Melbourne International Arts Festival, featuring a collaboration between The Rawcus Ensemble and Invenio Singers, at Arts Centre Melbourne in the Fairfax Studio. Rawcus is an award-winning ensemble of actors, living with and without disabilities whose performances evoke a profound sense of connection to universal human experiences. The Rawcus Ensemble featured Clement Baade, Hannah Bradsworth, Michael Buxton, Harriet Devlin, Rachel Edward, Joshua Lynzaat, Paul Matley, Mike McEvoy, Ryan New, Kerryn Poke, Leisa Prowd, Louise Riisik, Prue Stevenson and Danielle von der Borch. Nilgun Guven is the only support worker and performer, whereas the other staff members and associate artists worked behind the scenes. The intense 65-minute show contains strong visual imagery that includes implied violence, intermittent extremely bright lights, abrupt loud noises, and dusty haze. The sandy fume may irritate audience members who are situated close to the stage. Using a compact and functional stage set, the actors were able to move in the dark with ease and create seamless scene changes. The stagecraft elements were astonishing; Richard Vabre’s lighting design shocked the senses whilst Jethro Westward’s phenomenal soundscape juxtaposed sublime vocals of Invenio Singers against ambient mechanical sounds. Invenio Singers’ music director, composer and ethereal vocalist Gian Slater harmonised within the trio to the dulcet tones of Josh Kyle and Louisa Rankin’s warm timbre. The live non-diegetic soundtrack created a sombre world for the players to express their transient moods. The performers were fully focused and completely in the moment, magnetically holding the attention of the audience at all times. Charged with emotive choreography, the Rawcus Ensemble was extraordinary. - Review by Ai Diem Le
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Movies, DVDs with Jim Sherlock, Aaron Rourke What’s Hot and What’s Not in Blu-Rays and DVDs FILM: TEA WITH THE DAMES [aka: Nothing Like A Dame]: Genre: Documentary. Cast: Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Joan Plowright, Dame Judi Dench. Year: 2018. Rating: M. Length: 84 Minutes. Stars **** Review: Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith have let the cameras in on a friendship that goes back nearly six decades, as the four acting greats discuss their careers and reminisce about their humble beginnings in the theatre. Funny, poignant and delightfully engaging BBC feature documentary from beginning to end with four of Britain's acting legends is like being a fly on the wall, or table, as they discuss their theatrical and cinema careers in detail, the highs and lows, along with personal issues, opinions and a slew of anecdotes. From director Roger Michell, whose previous credits iclude "Notting Hill" (1999), "The Mother" (2003) with Daniel Craig, "My Cousin Rachel" (2017) with Rachel Weisz, "Hyde Park On Hudson" (2012) with Bill Murray, and "Venus" (2006) with Peter O'Toole, among others, has captured a treat for theatre and movie lovers of all generations. Highly recommended! FILM: ADRIFT: Genre: Adventure/Drama. Cast: Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas. Year: 2018. Rating: M. Length: 96 Minutes. Stars: ***½ Verdict: A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as the two avid sailors face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. Fact or fiction, stories on the big screen of survival at sea are plentiful, and this addition, among a sea of floundering cinematic water-logged debris, is one of the most gripping and well made efforts on the topic, excelling in all levels and overcoming any predictability by surviving on the human emotion throughout the journey convincingly, elements severely lacking in the other more recent true life sea adventure with Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst in "The Mercy" (2018). With far more on offer than what appears on the surface, Shailene Woodley gives a searing and captivating performance as Tami Oldham, as she battles all the elements that nature can bestow, as well as her inner emotions that range from poignant to gut wrenchingly real, a blood-sweat-and-tears performance of extraordinary physicality as it is psychologically or spiritually, aided by a convincing and effective performance by Sam Claflin as her partner, but this belongs to Woodley. Tight, lean and beautifully filmed by nine time Oscar nominee and three time Oscar winning cinematographer Robert Richardson (Hugo, The Aviator, JFK), not without its flaws, most notably the flashbacks, this is an impressively realized work, a thrilling, taut and superbly crafted addition to a genre of ordinary people thrust into and extraordinary life and death situation, that thankfully nearly all of us will experience from the comfort of home, and will remain about as close as we ever want to get. FILM: SICARIO - DAY OF THE SOLDADO: Genre: Action/Crime/Drama. Cast: Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Keener, Matthew Modine. Year: 2017. Rating: MA15+ Length: 122 Minutes. Stars: **** Verdict: The drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, and to fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) reteams with the mercurial assassin Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) to kidnap the daughter of a Mexican Drug Lord and turn the cartel's against each other, but things soon go awry. The second part of a planned trilogy, this follow-up to writer Taylor Sheridan and director Denis Villeneuve's powerful and nerve-shattering 2015 action-thriller has been well worth the wait, a daringly dynamic, blisteringly gritty, caustically dark and intensely unsettling journey that grips like a vice and slowly uncoils with a boiling and scorching energy ready to unleash at every turn without notice. Stars Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro command every frame with forceful, brooding and aggressive tightness and tension, and supported unfailingly by Catharine Keener, Matthew Modine as the Secretary of Defence, and most notably, a stellar performance by Isabela Moner as Isabela Reyes, the kidnapped daughter of a Mexican Drug Lord. With bristling cinematography by Dariusz Wolski, replacing Roger Deakins, and superbly paced, Director Stefano Sollima retains for the most part much of his predecessor's charm and dynamics, including the hair-raising score by the late Johann Johannsson, this time by his long time protégée Hildur Guonadottir, with equally commanding and powerful effect, and like "Jaws" (1975), translating music into 'a demonic character and menacing threat' on its own chilling terms. Thrilling, unforgiving, intelligent, atmospheric, menacing, smart, eerily timely and ambiguously thought-provoking, this is a superbly crafted, pulse-pounding political thriller that will grip you from the first frame to the last, and have you clenching your nails and teeth in demand for the third and final instalment immediately after the credits are over. Footnote: SICARIO: Spanish to English means "hitman," often used to describe the hitmen associated with the Mexican drug cartels, and SOLDADO is a Soldier Who Fights for a Cause. - James Sherlock
Rourke’s Reviews A Star Is Born ■ (M). 135 minutes. Opens in cinemas October 18. With four official versions, not to mention a myriad of imitations, already out there, the latest incarnation of A Star Is Born hits our screens, and while proving to be moderately entertaining, it cannot fully overcome the corn and formula of an oft-filmed scenario that has inevitably become shopworn cliche. Bradley Cooper stars as Jackson Maine, a famous rock star who has been on top for a number of years. Still bringing in the crowds, Maine has numbed his very public life through alcohol and drugs, and his tinnitus condition is getting worse and worse. Into his blurred world comes Ally (Lady Gaga), an aspiring singer he happens to see performing at a drag bar. Sparks fly, and before she knows it, Ally is touring with Jackson, and attracting a fanbase of her own. As his career appears to be spiralling downward, Ally's is soaring skyward, and their romance will encounter a number of highs and lows. Cooper makes quite a capable directorial debut (he also co-produced, co-wrote, and contributed additional music), and one has to admire him taking on a project that could have easily fallen on its face. Inspired by not only the earlier versions, but also films such as The Rose, The Last Waltz and The Idolmaker, Cooper is confident in the vision he wants to project, but sadly the cliches inherent in the material begin to undercut his efforts, especially in the second half, and some of the storytelling is rather haphazard (the sudden introduction of Dave Chappelle's character is noticeably jarring). Aiding Cooper immeasurably is the brilliant Matthew Libatique (regular cinematographer of Darren Aronofsky), who imbues the film with a gorgeous mix of grit and glitter. Cooper the actor is fine, and convinces during the concert scenes. Lady Gaga, while offering a pleasingly natural performance, never commands the screen, and isn't able to give Ally the necessary nuance and texture to make her journey truly compelling. It's also a part that is hardly a stretch for the notoriously outrageous artist. The supporting cast end up being more interesting than the leads, especially the wonderful Sam Elliott (who easily steals the film with the limited time allocated to him) as Jackson's older brother Bobby, Andrew Dice Clayas Ally's celeb-obsessed but supportive father (along with his close-knit group of friends), and Dave Chappelleas an old childhood friend of Jackson's. AStar Is Born will be embraced by audiences who love an old-fashioned, unabashed soapie tearjerker (along with fans of Lady Gaga), but others may begin to tune out
once the cliches start to take over and the artifice completely kicks in. However, I will look forward to see what Bradley Cooper does next behind the camera. RATING - ***
Bad Times At The El Royale ■ (MA). 140 minutes. Now showing in cinemas. Aping Quentin Tarantino to a staggering degree, this bloated exercise in pop culture is nothing more than a weak facsimile, taking a feeble screenplay and stretching it out beyond all acceptable proportions. Set at the end of the 1960s, the story alternates between several characters, all of whom have arrived at a rundown hotel called the El Royale for various reasons. As the night goes on, these lost, tortured souls will confront one another, as slivers of their past are gradually revealed. Writer/director Drew Goddard, who helmed the disappointing Cabin In The Woods, again misses the mark here, wanting to tell an absorbing, profound tale, but fails to inject his script with strong, colourful characters, sharp dialogue, and substantial plot threads. He then makes these inadequacies all the more obvious by ludicrously protracting nearly every scene, highlighting its hollow nature even more (if this was a classic RKO film, it would have run 90 minutes at most). The strong cast try (Lewis Pullman is the spitting image of his father, Bill), but are continually defeated by Goddard's needless selfindulgence. Watch Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill instead (or even James Mangold's Identity). RATING - **
The Soul Mate ■ (M). 97 minutes. Now showing at selected cinemas. Compact and good-natured, this small-scale South Korean comedy/drama offers mild entertainment, but never really makes memorable use of its amusing premise. Jang-soo (Ma Dongseok) is a judo instructor who doesn't like helping others, except for his young daughter who needs a heart transplant. Tae-jin (Kim Youngkwang) is a dedicated policeman who inadvertently locks horns with Jang-soo, mistakingly accusing him of being a people smuggler. When Tae-jin is attacked by gangsters over an incriminating memory card, his physical body lies in a coma, while his spirit roams the hospital corridors, and again he bumps into Jang-soo, who is the only one who can see him. Teaming up, the pair try to defeat the criminal crew before they can hurt those close to them. The story is kept simple, and after a shaky start, the film does get better as it goes along. The cast acquit themselves nicely, but the script and direction remain undistinguished, keeping this nothing more than an agreeable time-filler. RATING - **½
Top 10 Lists OCTOBER 14 -20 THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. VENOM. 2. SMALLFOOT. 3. JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN. 4. THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS. 5. LADIES IN BLACK. 6. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN. 7. NIGHT SCHOOL. 8. A SIMPLE FAVOUR. 9. CRAZY RICH ASIANS. 10. PAW PATROL MIGHTY PUPS: THE MOVIE. NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: OCTOBER 11: BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE, FIRST MAN, IN LIKE FLYNN, ONE LESS GOD, THE GARDENER, THE SOUL-MATE, WAJIB - THE WEDDING INVITATION. OCTOBER 18: 1%, A STAR IS BORN, DONBASS, WESTWOOD: PUNK, ICON, ACTIVIST. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. SICARIO - DAY OF THE SOLDADO [Action/Crime/Drama/Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro]. 2. SOLO: A Star Wars Story [Action/ Fantasy/Adventure/Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson]. 3. JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM [Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi/Chris Pratt]. 4. BROTHER'S NEST [Comedy/Drama/ Shane Jacobson, Clayton Jacobson]. 5. SHOW DOGS [Comedy/Family/ Adventure]. 6. MY FRIEND DAHMER [Drama/Ross Lynch, Anne Heche]. 7. CHAPPAQUIDDICK [Biography/Crime/ Drama/Jason Clarke, Kate Mara]. 8. ADRIFT [Drama/Adventure/Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Jeffrey Thomas]. 9. HEREDITARY [Drama/Mystery/Horror/ Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette]. Also: THE BOOKSHOP, SPINNING MAN, TAG, DEADPOOL 2, TULLY, DISOBEDIENCE, CARGO, IDEAL HOME, AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, GRINGO. NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: TEA WITH THE DAMES [Documentary/Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins]. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: Summer Vacation [Animated/Family/Adventure/ Comedy]. BACK TO BURGUNDY [Comedy/drama/ Anna Girardot, Francois Civil. OVERBOARD [2018/Comedy/John Hannah, Eva Longoria, Mel Rodriguez]. THOROUGHBREDS [Drama/Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin]. DVD AND/OR BLU-RAY NEW & RE-RELEASE CLASSIC MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS: John Carpenter's CHRISTINE 4K + BluRay [Horror/Thriller/Keith Gordon]. THE BIG LEBOWSKI 4K + Blu-Ray [Crime/Comedy/Jeff Bridges, John Goodman]. NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS: MATLOCK: Complete Series. THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF MELBOURNE: Season 4. RIVERDALE: Season 2. BLUE HEELERS: Complete Collection. - James Sherlock
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Local Theatre with Cheryl Threadgold and team SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
● Kate Cole and Caroline Lee in Suddenly Last Summer. Photo: Jodie Hutchinson. ■ The lyricism within Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer is what compels an investigation into human deprivation, perversion and sanity. Mrs Venable (Jennifer Vuletic) wants Doctor Sugar (Charles Purcell) to lobotomise Catharine Holly (Kate Cole) as this young girl was the one who saw the depraved end of Mrs Venable’s son, Sebastian. It was as if he’d been eaten alive by a pack of raucous children – the same ones from whom he sought gratification. Much like a swarming flock of birds preying on turtle hatchlings eager for the freedom of the sea, Sebastian has fallen foul of the ravages of nature. That same insidiousness also lies in Catharine’s own family who are happy to concede to Mrs Venable’s wishes to protect Sebastian’s name given the inheritance they hope to secure. And even the good doctor has reason to comply as his research will be funded. Cole’s evocation of the besieged Catharine, especially in the final moments of the play, is a rendering that serves as a plea for human understanding. The long sustained commentaries from both her and Jennifer bookend the piece and make this a play of inaction as we listen to their respective appeals. The other characters serve almost as prompts for the discourse. This, in many ways, makes director Stephen Nicolazzo’s stylisation of character and movement unnecessary. The extremes of nature are already in the characters and in the dialogue. Mrs Holly (Zoe Boesen), George Holly (Harvey Zielinski) and Sister Felicity (Caroline Lee) are parodies given the stereotypical costuming – George in cravat sized bowtie, adult blazer and boyish shorts. And whilst the garden setting (Eugyeene Teh) evokes the mist and hanging foliage of the American south, the raised platform meant actors had to bow to enter and leave the stage. The potential in William’s play lies in its appreciation of what social suppression, especially in areas of sexuality, foster within individuals and communities. Nothing could be more topical in Australia at the moment. This production is, perhaps, an opportunity missed to fully appreciate the disassociation felt by those not deemed acceptable. Until November 4. Red Stitch Rear, 2 Chapel St, St Kilda East - Review by David McLean
Archetypal Outrage
● Stephanie Harrison ■ Hip-hop dancer and choreographer Stephanie around just fitting the mould and sticking to unHarrison premieres her debut solo hour in Ar- helpful archetypes. I want to give CPR to the chetypal Outrage from October 15-20 at The dead spirits I see walking throughout our patriarButterfly Club. chal western society,” she states, then half-jokThe show comprises original song, choreog- ingly, “This show is also about unpacking the raphy and comedy, and offers a loud and proud inner bogan in me”. take-down of the patriarchy, along with an honAfter launching a wildly successful career as est and hilarious celebration of self. a hip-hop dancer and choreographer, this is Stephanie Harrison says she throws the Harrison’s full-length cabaret debut. viewer into the drivers’ seat on what it looks like Harrison has also been part of two incredwhen one rips down their own walls and shows ibly successful seasons in Melbourne Fringe their true self. with the performance art installations Conzoom Her autobiographical hyperbole is further and 19 Magnified Observations. deepened by drawing stories from the audience, Archetypal Outrage is a journey for others to and giving them unique new characters and feel empathy in a polarising world; it provides voices. comedic relief that equally escapes and helps Through a deeply personal lens, Harrison has with tips on how to deal with modern life. embarked on a mission to discover what it means The production opened on October 15 and to be an empowered woman in the 21st Century. runs for six nights. Bookings highly recom“We see so many ‘dead’ people walking mended.
Latest shows, auditions SHOWS
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■ Powderkeg Players: A Conversation (by David Williamson) Until October 20 at Dempster Park Hall, Sunshine. Director: Lee Cook. Bookings:www.powderkegplayers.com ■ LOTS Theatre Incorporated: Legends of the Skies Series 6 , October 18 - 20 at 8pm, October 16, 17 at 2pm at the Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin Airport. Artistic Director; Maggie Morrison. Booking details: https://www.trybooking.com/ book/sessions?eid=382961 ■ The 1812 Theatre: Gulls (by Robert Hewett), until October 27 at 3 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Zina Carman. Bookings: 9858 3964. ■ CLOC Musical Theatre: Jekyll & Hyde October 12 - 27 at the National Theatre, St Kilda. Director: Shaun Kingm; Musical Director; Tyson Legge; Choreography; Tamara Finch. Bookings: www.cloc.org.au ■ Babirra Music Theatre: Dusty - the Original Pop Dive Until October 20 at the Whitehorse Centre, Whitehorse Rd., Nunawading. Director: Christian Cavallo; Musical Director: StaceyLouise Camilleri; Choreography: Jessica Mohl. Bookings: www.babirra.org.au ■ Gemco Players Community Theatre: Love and Information (by Caryl Churchill) until October 20 at the Gemco Theatre, Kilvington Drive, Emerald. Director; David Lawson-Smith. Bookings: www.trybooking.com ■ Encore Theatre: Speaking in Tongues (by Andrew Bovell) Until October 27 at Clayton Community Centre, Cooke St., Clayton. Director: Louise Woodward. Bookings: 1300 739 099. ■ Dionysus Theatre: The Trojan Women (by Euripides) Until October 20, Week One: Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin; Week Two: McLelland College Performing Arts Centre, Karingal. Director: Emma Sproule. Bookings: emmaloustu@hotmail.com
■ Bacchus Marsh and Melton Community Centre: Caravan (by Donald MacDonald) October 19 - 27 at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church Hall, 19 Gisborne Rd., Bacchus Marsh. Director: Toni Collins. Bookings: 0422 185 955. ■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Things My Mother Taught Me November 9 - 24 at Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale. Directors: Laura Bradley and Michaela Smith. Bookings: 9587 5141 www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ Nova Music Theatre: Doctor Zhivago October 27 - November 11 at The Whitehorse Centre, Whitehorse Road, Nunawading. Bookings: 1300 304 433.
AUDITIONS ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Lost in Yonkers (by Neil Simon) October 23 and 26 at 7.00pm at 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna. Director: Gayle Poor. Enquiries: gaylepoor@hotmail.com ■ Malvern Theatre Company: Mr Bennet's Bride (by Emma Wood) November11, 12 at 7.00pm at 29 Burke Rd., Malvern. Director: Susan Rundle. Enquiries: 0416 298 136, ■ Sherbrooke Theatre Company: Neighbourhood Watch (by Alan Ayckbourn) October 28 at 6.30pm and October 29 at 7.30pm at The Shed, 4/22 Jesmond Rd., Croydon. Director: Stephen Barber. Enquiries: 0422 384 985. ■ Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Company: Quartet (Ronald Harwood) November 12, 13at 7.30pm at 39-41 Castella St., Lilydale. Director: Kellie Tweeddale. Enquiries: 0418 118 241. ■ The Basin Theatre Group: A Man for All Seasons (by Robert Bolt) November 25, 26, 27 at 7.00pm at The Basin Theatre, Doongalla Rd., The Basin. Director: Malcolm Sussman. Enquiries: 0417 141 803.
TILL THEY ALL COME HOME ■ The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir will mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice with Till They All Come Home, a concert expected to pack out Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday, November 11 at 3pm. The choir hopes that veterans and their families (and others) will make a day of it and come to the concert after Remembrance Day commemorations. RSL members are eligible for a concession price ticket. The 50-strong choir will be joined by Marina Prior and Mike Brady. Much of the accompaniment will be provided by the Australian Youth Band. Till They All Come Home is the brain child of Mike Lyons, who at 86, is one of the choir’s oldest members. Lyons was born a Londoner, and lived through the Blitz and the Battle of Britain. “Till They All Come Home celebrates the music of both World War I and World War II,” Lyons said. “World War I led inexorably to World War II and, despite the passage of time, both wars continue to resonate globally. Both continue to have dramatic and lasting effects on Australia. So much horror, so much death, so many lives otherwise destroyed. “Through all of this, music both comforted and inspired. Some songs were not much more than propaganda and were destined to disappear before or soon after the cessation of hostilities. Others became big hits and have endured.” Growing up during the London Blitz, Lyons became aware of the power of music through his father, who served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in World War I, and was part of a musical concert troupe entertaining servicemen and women in World War II. “Music helped us to both survive and appreciate life, whatever the circumstances. There was no television so music, especially live music, was prized. Our family was twice bombed out of home by the Luftwaffe but we could put brave faces to the world thanks to songs such as Vera Lynn’s White Cliffs of Dover and We’ll Meet Again .” Marina Prior will perform a Vera Lynn medley with the choir as well as We’ll Gather Lilacs , Sally Pride of our Alley , Wish Me Luck (As You Wave Me Goodbye) and the Edith Piaf standard, La Vie en Rose . Prior’s grandfather was a World War I ANZAC, as were all his brothers. He was shot three times and sent back to the front three times. He was only 19. She has all his records. Prior has performed more than 30 lead roles in stage shows throughout Australia, most memorably as Christine Daae in the original Australian production of The Phantom of the Opera, a role she performed for three years. The choir’s program includes a medley of songs from both wars, a Gershwin showcase, and some Welsh favourites Cwm Rhondda and The World in Union . With Mike Brady, they will also perform Eric Bogle’s 1980 hit about World War I, No Man’s Land (Willie McBride). Sunday, November 11 at 3pm Melbourne Town Hall, 90 Swanston Street, Melbourne (accessible) Tickets: $50/$45 (concession; RSL members) 9800 3889 or book through www.melbournewelshchoir.com.au/tickets
WHEN I WAS A GIRL ■ Melbourne performer Tim Clark returns to the stage at The Butterfly Club between November 5 and 10 for an alt-country cabaret tribute to the women whose songs have guided him. In his new show, When I Was a Girl, he sings songs by such luminaries as Gillian Welch, Neko Case, Aimee Mann, First Aid Kit, Fiona Apple and Patty Griffin. Dates: November 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Time: 8.30pm. Cost: $27-34. Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne (off Lt. Collins St). Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com
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Observer Victorian Sport Melbourne
Caulfield Cup classic Ted Ryan
■ The Caulfield Cup is coming up this Saturday. The Darren Weir trained, international galloper, Kings Will Dream and the good mare Unforgotten from the powerful Chris Waller camp have been among the early fancies. Kings Will Dream continues to impress all and sundry backing that up with another run behind Winx in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington over the 2000 metre trip. Since joining the Weir team from overseas he has impressed all and sundry with his ability racing amongst the elite we have to offer in Australia. He won at Flemington back in March over 1800 metres and then backed that up with a most impressive win in the Mornington Cup over the distance of the Caulfield Cup of 2400 metres. The win in the Mornington Cup, earned automatic entry into the Caulfield Cup and has long been one of the fancies for the big event. At his last three runs he has run third in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield over 1400 metres to stablemate, Humidor, then buttered up with a good second behind Grunt in the Makybe Diva stakes over 1600 metres at Flemington. At his last outing he wasn't far behind Winx and Youngstar, in third spot. He will be hard to beat come the big day, but the barrier draw will play a big part. The good mare, Youngstar, a winner of the Golden Roses and the Queensland Oaks has been heavily backed on her great run, second to Winx, in the Turnbull after doing all the hard work up front. As a winner of the Queensland Oaks the distance will suit her right down to the ground, and Chris Waller gives her a big chance of him winning his first Caulfield Cup. On the next line is one of the Lloyd Williams team in the imported galloper, Homesman, who impressed with a narrow, but good win in the Underwood Stakes at Caulfield on September 30. Always in the firing line he hung on well to defeat anther formerinternationals in Tosen Basil, who is a big tip for the Cup around town. Of the others in the Underwood, Humidor was third, finishing just behind first and second. Another of the Weir's strong contingent is the promising five-year old, Night's Watch, who
● Kings Will Dream, one of the favourites. Racing Photos. won the Naturalism Stakes in good style after Last year's Victoria Derby winner, Ace High, being well off the pace early he flashed home prepared by David Payne in Sydney showed at over the 2000 metres wide out to get home nar- his last start there with a big win and will be right rowly but in spectacular fashion. on song for this, he has always been one of the He has always been one of the top fancies fancies for the Caulfield Cup. sine the markets opened and will hard to beat. He is a horse that can sit on the pace and in By the English sire, Redwood, from an Ex- the Caulfield Cup it is generally run at a quick ceed and Excel mare, Glory Run, he will no tempo. trouble with the trip and will be among the leadDon't leave him out of your multies. ing bunch in the Cup early. Another with a big chance is anther of the On the next line is the Liam Howley trained Chris Waller barn in another Oaks winner in international Taj Mahal, whose form is a bit Unforgotten, who at one stage was high in the indifferent and would have to improve for mine markets from this. to be a chance in the Caulfield Cup. Of the internationals here both the Cups, I He is probably better suited in the Melbourne fancy the Japanese galloper, Chestnut Coat. Cup, if he goes around. I am going a bit wide with my best chances The Darren Weir trained international Tosen being Kings Will Dream, Youngstar, Night's Basil impressed a number of racegoers with his Watch, Unforgotten, and the best outsider Tosen close second to Homesman in the Underwood Basil. Stakes and feel that he a strong chance here. - Ted Ryan
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Wine Column ■ I can just imagine a mythical letter to one of my editors: "Do you mind telling your wine writer to stop banging on about Tyrrells? They're just another winery after all." And I can equally imagine my defence. Firstly, they're not just another winery. They're one of Australia's oldest familyowned wineries and there have only been four people - all of them Tyrrells, of course at the helm since the business was founded by Edward Tyrrell when he took up a selection of land in the Hunter Valley in 1858. Then came the legendary Edward 'Dan' Tyrrell, who made his first wine at age 18 and conducted his last vintage, aged 88, in 1959, just before he suffered a coronary and died. He was followed by his nephew Murray Tyrrell, the 'Mouth of the Hunter', and famous for declaring every vintage the best of all time. When Murray died in 2000 he was succeeded by his son Bruce, who is at the helm now. Three of Bruce's children - Jane, John and Christopher - wait in the wings, though given the family history of longevity they still have a while to wait. Secondly, I'll do a deal with the mythical letter-writer. I'll stop banging on about Tyrrells when they stop producing some of the country's most outstanding varietal, regional wines. The latest to reach this desk are five distinctive Hunter wines, designated as comprising part of the 'Single-Vineyard' range. As young wines, they're not straight-forward and easy-to-drink. They're wines meant for cellaring and to engender conversation and debate. I certainly had several lengthy discussions with myself as a tasted the quintet - mainly regarding which of three semillons I would include here for review. WINE REVIEWS Tyrrells 2016 Belford Chardonnay ($40): Fermentation started in stainless steel, but was finished in French oak, some of it new. It's a lean sort of chardonnay, belonging in the distinctly stonefruit part of the flavour spectrum. It has many years of cellaring in front of it. If you must drink it now, do so with a full-flavoured chicken or fish dish. Tyrrells 2016 Old Hut Shiraz ($40): The vineyard was planted in 2003 with cuttings from old shiraz grown in a nearby Tyrrells vineyard dating to 1879. It's a fruit-driven red that, like the best Hunter shiraz, is medium-bodied rather than robust in a Barossa sense. It will revel in being paired with a fine, grilled, medium-rare steak. WINE OF THE WEEK Tyrrells 2013 HVD Semillon ($35): The Hunter Valley Distillery or 'Sign-Post' block first planted in 1908 and holding what Murray Tyrrell thought to be some of the valley's top semillon. To me it's the fullest-bodied, most rounded of the three semillons in the range - the others are the Belford and Stevens from the same vintage - and, right now the easiest to drink. Try it with a simple dish of char-grilled white-fleshed fish. - John Rozentals ● From Page 55
After Hero
● Night's Watch, a big chance in the Caulfield Cup on Saturday. Racing Photos.
With the highlight of the appearance of Olivia Staaf as entertainer Barbara Streisand dressed as a glamorous cockroach espousing wisdom, the adventure to the New World collapses as the ship’s captain forewarns the refugees of the loss of liberty and their individual identities, all taken away by elected bureaucrats. Mythology and an ocean voyage ends with Act Three dealing with the unpredictability of life in Melbourne leaving us with many thoughts to ponder with really no defined answers, other than what we personally aspire to. Some lines were lost through lack of volume and projection while one could not doubt the enthusiasm of the six member cast. I wish theatre ensembles would resist the direction of completely clearing the theatre patrons at interval so allowing a change minimal or otherwise of the set. - Graeme McCoubrie
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Deck-Doc
Local company chosen as best in the world
For many years Deck-Doc has been supplying retailers throughout Australia with their premium range of timber and decking oils. For the past three years, Deck-Doc has been predominantly selling their products online to service the whole of Australia as well as international customers.
Deck-Doc was recently chosen over other companies to supply their oils to an international company and is in the process of sealing an agency agreement for exclusive distribution and selling rights in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Deck-Doc timber oil is environmentally friendly and the business has been manufacturing unique, lanolin-based timber oil in Geelong for 15 years. The formula was developed by Robert Hylands to preserve the natural oils and tannins in the timber. The timbers oils and tannins determine the colour of the timber. If the tannins dry out, the timber will lose its own natural colour. The formula is made up of many different plant oils, waxes and lanolin and designed to stay soft and pliable when absorbed into the surface layers of the timber, therefore will not solidify and form a hard membrane of the surface. It will move with the timber during all weather conditions preventing water absorption and drying out of the tannins. Mr Hylands first developed the timber oil when he noticed there was nothing on the market that preserved the timber and protected the timber’s natural colour. Before his time at Deck-Doc, he gained experience when he owned a factory making hand carved, handpainted wooden decoy ducks for duck hunters. The timber used for the ducks had to maintain its natural colour and stay on the water without absorbing moisture. After extensive research, he found lanolin (wool grease) gave excellent water repellency as well as UV protection. Mr Hylands developed lanolin-based timber protection oil and found the water-repellent protection and preservative way far superior and says lanolin is “Nature’s natural UV protection”. Lanolin comes from the wool of sheep and is extracted from the fleece. It is a substance that waterproofs, insulates, and protects sheep from the cold, wind, rain and harmful CV sun rays. Deck-Doc uses the best merino wool to extract lanolin. Throughout history ancient mariners such as the Vikings used lanolin to protect, waterproof and preserve the wooden boards on their ships. Many of the ships were away from their home bases for many years and their ships were subjected to wild storms at sea. They survived thanks to the protection of Lanolin. Deck-Doc invites all to visit their showroom in Moolap for free advice in a number of important issues concerning timber care. There is a large selection of timber types that have been exposed to severe weather conditions, enabling people to understand the importance of choosing a suitable timber type. for the right application. Also know what happens to the different types of decking stains and coatings, how they weather, and the maintenance required. The friendly staff have useful hints for anyone preparing to build a new deck.
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Learning to Ride
Balance Bikes from Ivanhoe Cycles Balance Bikes (also called training bikes) are pedalless bikes designed to provide fun and exercise and to teach the basic skills of steering, balance and co-ordination. They are suited to a child from 2 to 5 years of age. The child simply sits astride the balance bike and "walks" while steering with the handlebars.
It effectively allows them to learn balance without having to learn to pedal at the same time. It cuts the learning "gradient" down. They are also called pre bikes or first bikes. Balance bikes are becoming increasingly popular, as it is so much easier to learn to ride. Learning to ride can be achieved at their own pace. A less confident child can “walk” it around for as long as they like, then
when ready, they can gradually lift their feet and scoo along until they are ready to simply push off and jus roll along. More confident kids will be flying around with huge smiles in no time at all. Because they have a sturdy aluminium or steel frame and well constructed wheels they are virtually trouble free, and can be passed down from child to child.
BYK E250L PURPLE $219
GIANT PRE BIKE - RED $199
Mongoose Lilgoose WNR Girls Balance Bike 12 Inch $179
Byk E250L Purple - Girls 14inch Balance Bike
12 inch boys balance bike that is a perfect gradient for learning to ride a real bike
The low stand-over height makes it very easy to get on and off the bike,
LIL ZOOMER BALANCE BIKE - GREEN $99
BYK E200L $189
Little Zoomer Balance Bike in any colour. A fun way to teach balance and coordination! Suitable 2-4 years.
Byk E200L. Balance Bikes make it so much easier for your child to learn to ride.
MONGOOSE LILGOOSE WNR BOYS BALANCE BIKE 12 INCH $179 The Mongoose Lilgoose Balance bike is not only one of the cutest designs we've seen on a training bike.